Roy Romer
Garden City High School in Colorado shaped the early years of Roy Romer, who went on to build a career that spanned law, military service, and elected office.
Born on October 31, 1928, in Garden City, Romer pursued an extensive education before entering public life. After graduating from Garden City High School, he studied at Colorado State University, then moved on to the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Colorado Law School to train as a lawyer. He also attended Yale University. Along the way he served as a military officer, adding that strand to a career that was already pulling in several directions. His work as a lawyer gave him a foundation in the law before he turned his attention to politics.
Romer went on to serve as a governor, making him one of the more prominent politicians to come out of Colorado. His path from a small-town Kansas upbringing through a series of demanding educational programs to elected office as governor reflects the range of roles he took on over the course of his life. As a United States citizen who worked across the fields of law, military service, and politics, Romer's record as governor stands as the most visible marker of his public career.
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Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it’s not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
One of the things that we’re all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don’t think it’s impossible to do that, but it’s difficult.
Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It’s very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you’re probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don’t know.
I’m not just a politician, I’m a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.
We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It’s also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.