Across the country, flagship public universities are trying to disentangle themselves from their obligations to the states that created them. In New York, the research campuses want more flexibility to set (that is, raise) tuition. In Michigan, lawmakers have floated the idea of privatizing the Ann Arbor campus. University of California campuses, and particularly Berkeley, are enrolling more students from out of state. The University of Virginia went semiprivate years ago… flagship universities aren’t owned by faculty, administrators, or alumni. They’re owned by the generations of citizens who built the universities with their tax dollars and hard work, even though most of them had little hope of going there themselves. It was an act of generosity and faith in the future good will of their descendants. Betraying that trust would be an act of the least forgivable sort.

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by Kevin Carey, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Posted: August 7th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.