"But in the free market system, you're forced to change." — Roy Romer

Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

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But in the free market system, you're forced to change.