Still, the University isn’t in a position to rest on its laurels. In spite of receptivity at the highest levels of government, lower strata of the hierarchy—arms handling the day-to-day work of carrying out the Government’s new regulations, don’t seem to be lending so generous an ear, Casey says.
The interest Washington leaders have shown for the universities’ new plight, he says, “isn’t percolating downward.”
And Casey says he expects the coming election to sap the legislative and executive branches of any inclination to address universities’ concerns as fully as they should.
“Everything will be pushed off toward the election,” he says.
—Staff writer Nathan J. Heller can be reached at heller@fas.harvard.edu.
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