• 3 / 23/ 87 SELECT COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION RECOMMENDATIONS THAT DO NOT COST MONEY 1. High standards 2. Teacher education 3. Admission standards 4. Core curriculum 5. Enrollment caps 6. Testing (modest costs) 7. Sunsetting PhD programs 8. Role and mission statements 9. Substance abuse 10. State planning 11. Assessment of educational outcomes 12. Informing 8th grade students and their parents of courses and grades required to get into a college of their choice and to be successful, once there. 13. Block grant funding 14. Funding a larger percentage of research by peer review 15. Returning 50% of indirect cost recovery to the institutions (this could result in an additional $30 million a year in indirect cost recovery.) RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WILL HELP REDUCE COSTS 1. Change incentives from new building to maintaining existing facilities 2. Enrollment caps 3. Incentives for management 4. Sunsetting PhD programs 5. Five-year plans to manage personnel overhead --60% of the higher education budget is for employee salaries and related benefits 6. Uniform accounting and reporting
