"If Gov. Phil Bredesen has his way, many more Tennessee high school graduates will start their college education at two-year schools and then transfer to universities to earn their degrees.
If state leaders don't make the change now, Tennessee will pay later, he said.
'I think Tennessee has got to solve this problem in this new economy of how you get more people with higher levels of education,' he said.
Tennessee needs to 'settle down and figure out how to move the knowledge base of our workers up the ladder like other states are doing.'"