5/1/98
Contact: Ohio University President Robert Glidden, (740) 593-1804

ATHENS, Ohio -- Ohio University President Robert Glidden participated in a regional summit on higher education last week in suburban Chicago.

Glidden joined 150 governors, state legislators and college presidents in Oak Brook, Ill., for the Midwestern Higher Education Policy Summit, which was held Wednesday through Friday (June 3-5). The summit served as a forum for the exchange of ideas and the discussion of key policy issues regarding higher education as the 21st century approaches. The summit focused on affordability of college, long-term funding of higher education and the capacity of higher education to change.

Participants attended from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The meeting was sponsored by the Midwestern Governors' Conference, the Midwestern Legislative Conference and the Midwestern Higher Education Commission, and was funded in part by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.