The New York Times :: The Perils of Cutbacks in Higher Education
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> More than seven million students are enrolled as under-
> graduates in four-year colleges and universities in the United
> States, and nearly 70 percent of them attend public institutions,
> which depend on taxpayer money doled out by legislatures for
> the majority of their funds. The percentages are similar for the
> 1.8 million graduate students; 60 percent attend public
> universities.
>
> The combination makes public higher education a pillar of the
> nation's competitive advantage. That is as it should be. How
> else can bright young people from lower-income families afford
> a first-rate education? Tuition is usually too high for them at
> private colleges, and now it is shooting up at the state schools
> as they struggle to get by with smaller subsidies in a weak
> economy.

Undercutting the nation's competitive advantage, but by insuring another generation of provincial conservatives, extending the Republican party's.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 12:14 PM

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