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My email of June 25, 2003 to
Dr. David Powers
Exective Director
Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education

I was checking out some DOL's data. It shows the most job not filled are requiring no postsecondary ed. This raise a very interesting question: Do we content with our higher ed? This is of cause a wrong question since we know this could due to our traditional agriculture industry - we have to let go low wage/labor intensive jobs.

As we talked about earlier, if we want Nebraska to be competitive - in development, we have to pick some fields and invested on a vertical fashion. If you think about it carefully, you will realize that with a lead in just few fields in both Ed and Industry you got to keep talent graduates and attract talent freshmen.

• Again the key is in choosing fields. The fields have to have the potential of involving higher ed graduates and be able to absorb man power. We don't want fields that only benefits few people.

Duncan

Added link on 2007/07/05: Planned Education

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis mailto:Dennis@nchems.org
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:41 AM
To:
Subject: FW: NE Migration

David:

During our conversation I indicated we�d made an attempt to show the extent of in/out migration of college grads for each of the states. Attached are a couple of powerpoint frames that shows the results for all states with Nebraska highlighted. It says to me that the brain drain issue is much more one of college grads than (probably) college freshmen. What it really says is that the economy of NE is such that it can�t employ the graduates that are generated.

DPJ

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My email of Sept. 16, 2003 to
Dr. David Powers
Exective Director
Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education

Subject: My take of Dennis' presentation

• Dennis Johns' presentation:
  • Nebraska manpower:
    • low personal income
    • Higher degree contribute less to personal income
    • Bachelor degree moving out
    • Over taxed
  • Education performance:
    • All indicator are above national averages.
    • However, holding relative low B.S. adults.
  • Predictions:
    • Will short of revenues
    • Will not be able to maintain current services
  • Higher Ed spending:
    • Higher Ed spending is higher than us average - even though it fluctuated over the years.
    • High research and development spending. Didn't attract enough Federal fund.
    • Highest in state support research fund
• My conclusion:
  • Doing good in education - except we could improve in B.S. graduation rate - But we may not have enough incentive for student to pursue higher degree - Wage difference is low.
  • Need boost industry that pays higher B.S. salary.
  • Nebraska, in general, over spending in higher Ed - this may due to the over spending in local supported research.