05/12/2014
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"The goal of innovation in higher education is to, No. 1, improve student performance; No. 2, increase retention rates."
"But the more important thing for today's hearing, as a result of Tennessee's outcome-based formula, Austin Peay is the No. 1 public university in Tennessee in terms of increased funding."
"We need to find ways to say, 'OK, let's weed the garden, before we do some more.'"
"I would say to Senator Mikulski that I am proud to have been a graduate of Vanderbilt, but I am proud to have been president of the University of Tennessee and it is important that I make that distinc..."