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carry this to its logical extreme, the University of

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Maryland makes no case whatsoever by citing this authority,

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because it has the very thinking that is recommended in

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this booklet.

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Now, secondly, and more importantly, when con-

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sidering the community colleges and the State colleges,

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certain standards are set out in here for what types of

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institutions should be given this statutory or constitu-

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tional autonomy, and I will read from a footnote on page

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30: Some State-supported institutions because of in-

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adequate staff or the inability to guarantee a program

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and staff ofexcellence may not be prepared for legal, I

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repeat, legal autonomy, but in all cases autonomy should

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be the ultimate objective, and States should actively

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work to strengthen the managerial and educational

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capacities of smaller institutions so that they can assume

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their place as institutions of higher learning worthy of

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the name.

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Now, in addition to not being authority for

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the principle of the constitutional autonomy, the report

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makes it clear by this language that it is simply not