Thursday, February 04, 2010
Higher Education Enhances our Region’s Wealth, Literally and Figuratively
Posted at 2:40 PM
In an effort to find alternative ways to raise revenue, some local municipalities and governments have proposed placing taxes on institutions of higher education. However, business leaders and their counterparts in higher education recognize that making access to higher education more expensive by imposing a tax on tuition or otherwise seeking to impose additional expenses on the operation of colleges and universities is not the solution. It will drive away students and erode the many benefits that colleges and universities provide.
Rob Wonderling, Chamber President and CEO and Chairman and CEO of the Council for Growth, joined Villanova University President Rev. Peter M. Donohue, who is chair of the GPCC Regional Colleges and Universities Presidents’ Council, and Daniel Fitzpatrick, President and CEO of Citizens Bank-Easter PA/NJ/DE and 2010-11 chair of the CEO Council for Growth, Human Capital Working Group, to explain this position in a Philadelphia Business Journal Op-Ed.
To read it, click here.