David Weerts has spent the past several years examining state and university relationships as well as a belief among many higher education leaders that if colleges and universities are going to gain more legislative support they need to pump up their public relations and marketing efforts.
But Weerts -- a Wisconsin native who is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and co-director of the Jandris Center for Innovative Higher Education -- argues similarly to Mason that institutions would have more success if they became "more productively engaged in state problems."
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