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INTERSTATE AGENCIES

SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD

Kathleen Blanco, Governor of Louisiana, Chair (chosen by Board in June, 1-year term)

Mark D. Musick, President

592 10th St., NW
Atlanta, GA 30318 - 5790
(404) 875-9211
e-mail: info@sreb.org
fax: (404) 872-1477
web: www.sreb.org/

[photo, Maryland Higher Education Commission, 839 Bestgate Road, Annapolis, Maryland] Maryland members appointed by Governor to 4-year terms: Calvin W. Burnett, Ph.D., 2005; Henry B. Heller, 2007; William E. Kirwan, Ph.D., 2008; one vacancy.

Ex officio: Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., Governor

c/o Maryland Higher Education Commission
839 Bestgate Road, Suite 400
Annapolis, MD 21401
(410) 260-4516
e-mail: cburnett@mhec.state.md.us
fax: (410) 974-3513
tty: 1-800-735-2258 (toll free)
web: www.mhec.state.md.us

Maryland Higher Education Commission, 839 Bestgate Road, Annapolis, Maryland, August 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

The Southern Regional Education Board is the nation's oldest interstate compact for higher education. The Board plans for the use of educational programs and facilities by its member states that enable them to multiple the benefits of cooperative efforts, while dividing costs. The Board operates under the Southern Regional Education Compact of 1949, which Maryland ratified in 1949 (Chapter 282, Acts of 1949). Fifteen other states have ratified the Compact.

Created at the request of southern political and education leaders, the Board brings together educators, government officials, and other regional leaders to advance education and thereby improve the social and economic life of the South. Working directly with state governments, academic institutions, and other agencies, the Board conducts research and reports on needs, problems, and developments in education; coordinates cooperative programs to upgrade training in undergraduate, graduate, professional and technical education; and administers interstate arrangements for regional educational services and institutions. These reciprocal agreements provide quality education without developing expensive specialized programs in each state.

Sixteen states are Board members: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The Board's governing body consists of eighty members. These include the governor and four others from each member state, one of whom must be a state legislator and one an educator. All are chosen by the governor for four-year terms (Code Education Article, secs. 25-201 through 25-205).

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