NASHVILLE Tenn.
It’s been nearly a year since Gov. Phil Bredesen announced aproposal to create a community college curriculum designed to prepare studentsto become managers at big-box retailers like Wal-Mart.
Yet there is no sign that any such “Wal-Mart 101″program will be available at two-year schools across the state anytime soon.
Asked in an interview with The Associated Press this weekabout what the holdup is, Bredesen responded: “The Board of Regents andthe general difficulty of moving things forward in the educationalsystem.”
The Board of Regents oversees two-year schools and publicuniversities that are not part of the University of Tennessee system.
“The Board of Regents on that one has not picked up theidea and carried forward on their own in some fashion,” Bredesen said.
Bredesen said he prefers state officials to moveaggressively on new ideas. He said he’d rather have to tell officials to slowdown rather than have to constantly prod them into action.
The governor said that he sometimes has to ask UT PresidentJohn Petersen to rein in the pace of new programs, but that that rarely occurswith the Board of Regents.
