Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, co-chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, suggested this morning that if Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants to overhaul the state’s higher-education system, the University of Connecticut should also be included under a new Board of Regents.
Malloy has proposed combining the administration of the Connecticut State University System and the Community-Technical Colleges, but leaving UConn as a stand-alone.
“I feel that the UConn system needs to be in the umbrella, because what we’re doing is sending two messages to our students,” Walker said.
“It’s okay for you to move from the community college to the state university, but those aren’t the same as UConn,” Walker said. “If we’re talking about being able to move within a system and these are systems that we pay for as citizens of the state of Connecticut, then I want to know that if I decide to start in a community college, I may decide to move into UConn and I want to make sure that you, or whoever is in charge, is going to make that happen.”