Retiring President David Boren warns that OU is 'standing on the edge of a cliff' - Randy Krehbiel, Tulsa World

“As I leave this job, I really feel good about the university’s strength,” Boren said last week. “I think we have the strongest faculty, strongest student body, strongest staff ... the strongest possible position, but I think we’re standing on the edge of a cliff.” That cliff, he said, is the state’s declining financial support of public higher education and denial of the basic reality that, as Boren put it, “There is no free lunch.” http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/retiring-president-david-boren-warns-that-ou-is-standing-on/article_ca12817e-24a6-57f4-a152-e87a9f37f658.html