Oklahoma Taxpayers Deserve Better Than This

"No bureaucracy as sclerotic as the higher education industrial complex will change on its own," Forbes.com columnist Jerry Bowyer correctly observes. Fortunately, the microchip and bandwidth are forcing the issue, and help is on the way for parents who are losing sleep trying to figure out how to pay for college.

In the meantime, Oklahoma legislators should reduce higher-ed appropriations until colleges start doing a better job with the money they're getting now.