Make UT-Dallas a Tier-One University
We should take advantage of the economic plights of California, Michigan, and the East Coast to recruit their best companies to relocate to Texas. We should also lure away from their universities the best and brightest to come make the University of Texas at Dallas a tier-one university and Southern Methodist University the Dallas equivalent of Rice. Great universities in Dallas would cement the third leg of the Austin-Houston-Dallas triangle, enriching Texas by making it the nation’s leading breeding ground for economic prosperity based on high-value-added jobs, creating businesses that will drive future global economic growth.
Fisher is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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r86 says: Exactly how is the revenue going to be obtained for this venture? Fisher seems to conclude that Texas is positioned for the ability to attract wealth and educated populace from other parts of the country. Frankly, that view ended for Texas circa 1994. The expansion of Texas now comes from the South not the North. In Collin County, the wealthiest county in Texas, there is no longer significant in-migration from north of the Red River. Frankly, what I view is a constant reverse migration of wealth and educated populace out of Texas that the state was previously fortunate to attract to this County over the three decades from around 1974 to ’94. (April 27th, 2009 at 12:37am)
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