More. More. Gimme more.

The well-known Arthur Levine, writing in Inside Higher Ed, summarizes Obama’s cornucopic campaign vision for higher education — and, wow, notice the president-elect’s handlers didn’t miss a trick:

The Obama higher education platform focused on five critical issues: access, affordability, research, economic development, and international competitiveness. His agenda included — among other initiatives — grants for technology-based economic development through community colleges; doubled funds for basic research, especially energy-related research; support for expanding historically black colleges and for enhancing distance learning; the establishment of tax credits to make college more affordable; and expansion of access through TRIO and Gear-Up, as well as community colleges. He asked for funding to produce teachers, promote service, and retrain the unemployed.

Levine, belatedly, obviously, and rather too demurely, pronounces that a “number of pressures will now require the new president to rethink this array of important proposals because he won’t have the resources to carry out this agenda.”

What else is new? And where in the heck are Levine’s demands for serious accountability for this incredibly unfundable, utopian agenda?