Public Universities Work Hard to Make Up for Budget Cuts. But In-State Students May Be Paying the Price.
When states disinvest in higher education, their universities respond by putting a higher priority on students who will bring in the most money. Colleges facing the biggest budget crunches are the likeliest to aggressively recruit wealthy out-of-state students… A few public universities bucked the trend. For example, most of the University of California at Irvine’s public-high-school visits in the Los Angeles metropolitan area were to predominantly minority communities. Only a few visits were in predominantly white communities. But like the University of California at Berkeley and North Carolina State University, which also emphasized in-state recruiting, the reasons may have as much to do with nonresident enrollment caps as with a philosophical commitment to home-grown talent.
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by Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education.