Tom Crawford Quotes (9 Quotes)

For the present time Think Ohio is merely an informationpublic relations campaign. We have funded Think Ohio through our internal Student Government budget. This stream of funding does not allow us to lobby for partisan issues or for individual candidates. It also sets very stringent restrictions on the way and the amount of money that can be raised.

When we ran for Student Government last year, we ran on a higher education reform. This campaign is our answer to some of the promises that we made.

In principle, it's a good idea. Other states have eased into this type of thing, but there's no way the state can take cuts like this all at once it's just too much too quick.

Our sincerest hope is that we give this the best shot that we can. We hope it works.

So many times we get 30 students at the State House, from two universities and they have a broken message. We wanted to get as many students as possible and make this a statewide initiative to show unity.

There are an increasing number of talented young people who 20 or 30 years ago would have gone to university who are not because university no longer means what it used to and they do not want to saddled with high levels of debt.

We as a university will not only become the third-largest university in the State of Ohio, but our budgets will merge we will move up in so many rankings nationally. It's kind of mind-blowing.

Employers are going to have to be more canny. People who might traditionally have gone to a red-brick may now just as easily go to a more modern university because the course is more interesting. So employers are going to have to head-hunt more on campus.

We have to begin to invest in our future, otherwise we'll go the way of the dinosaur. We need to get the job market and the current system of higher education turned around in the state of Ohio.