Education needs bipartisan effort

Rep. Joe Courtney:

In the midst of the most desperate threat to our nation, President Abraham Lincoln looked beyond the dire present of the Civil War and signed a groundbreaking national commitment to higher education. On July 2, 1862, the Morrill Act created the land-grant system for state educational institutions to foster engineering and agricultural science.

From coast to coast -- from the University of Florida to the University of Alaska -- every state has benefited from Lincoln's foresight and a supportive, bipartisan group of legislators. For generations, that was how Washington looked on higher education.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 12, 2012 1:28 AM
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