One of the big issues in Lebanon is the "brain drain" - the flow of university-educated young people leaving the country in search of better prospects abroad.
Online educational technology could reduce cross-border flows of university students.
The university's endowment value plunged 30percentt, reducing the flow of investment returns into the operating budget.
Mr. Friedlander and his wife, Anna Skorupa, are part of a gradual flow of young, university-trained outsiders into the Delta's shrinking communities, many of whom arrived through Teach for America and stayed beyond their two-year commitment.
Under proposals published last month by Lord Browne, the former BP chief executive who reviewed university finance for the government, student choices will determine the flow of money to universities.
Instead, the plan to cut central government funding for teaching while increasing the cap on tuition fees should leave the flow of money to universities more or less untouched.
Lord Mandelson, the last Labour cabinet minister responsible for higher education, is expected on Friday to raise the bar for any Labour pre-election decision to cut tuition fees, arguing that any reform has to ensure that the current range and flow of funding into universities from all available sources is sustained.
Although this would initially appear to be a token commitment, the panel's proposal would enforce it by stopping the flow of funding to universities that did not adopt policies promoting the complete disclosure of intellectual property with commercial potential.
But the state's $12.8 billion budget deficit that that has stopped the flow of cash to universities and schools, transit systems and social-service agencies is going to force Quinn and the state Legislature to make painful choices.
Paterno's widow has tremendous incentive to protect her husband's reputation and the flow from the university of millions of dollars and other benefits.
"Universities are in the business of producing knowledge and highly skilled people," he explained, so "the flow of people [out of universities] should be given attention at all levels," not just at the graduate level where they already perform well.
