"The commission was established .. and charged with [four] main objectives: (1) to develop an effective statewide framework for higher education funding; (2) to review options and make recommendations relating to the establishment of a consistent and stable funding mechanism to ensure accessibility and affordability while at the same time promoting policies to achieve national eminence at all of Maryland's public institutions of higher education; and (3) to review options and make recommendations relating to the appropriate level of funding for the state's historically black institutions to ensure that they are comparable and competitive with other public institutions; (4) to examine the eight regional higher education centers inMaryland.

"December 2008."