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Have you read the mathematician and author Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass? The Red Queen seems ridiculous but she speaks volumes of truth to us Kentuckians when she says: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that." 

 

In their most recent blog post on iMedia, the KSTC warns us that we are part of a larger national trend backwards.  So, as Kentuckians are running hard to keep up and maybe even become even with the nation's averages, we aren't even standing still - we're falling behind.  Read especially page 10 on Higher Education Attainment (% of adults aged 25-34 with a tertiary degree) of the new report from the European-American Business Council's Information Technology & Innovation Foundation "The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU & US Innovation and Competitiveness" (February 2009).

 

There you will see that the US is trending doward - with almost no increase in higher education attainment percentages since 1999 - and that we are losing ground compared to other nations.  Russian, Canada, Japan and South Korea lead the US by nearly 30%. With the lowest in overall growth rate, and of all nations that measure this characteristic of a robust economy, the US is standing still while others are running ahead.  The University of Kentucky must run even twice as hard.