Title Element Too Long Question

[ClaytonKendall]

I have recently become a pro member of SEOmoz and I've been going through the crawl diagnostics summary in an attempt to fix some of the errors. Currently I have 2,167 pages where the title element is too long. I would like to fix this, but I have certain keywords present on all of the pages that I am ranking first for. I am afraid if I take these words out of my titles it will hurt my rank for those keywords. Is it better to leave the keywords in or remove them to get under the 70 character mark?

[NextGenEDU]

There is a good whiteboard Friday that deal with this question.  Arguably, anything after 70 character gets ignored, so it isn't helping anyway.  Of course we know nothing for sure.  I say test a few and see how they do.

[NextGenEDU]

Whiteboard Friday Link:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/title-tags-is-70-characters-the-best-practice-whiteboard-friday