November 1, 2002
A Surge of Students
Enrollments soar at colleges of all types. For some of them, that's a mixed blessing.More students than ever have descended on American campuses this fall, with many public and private colleges reporting record enrollments. While the trend is a boon for some small private colleges, the crush of new students has several state universities bursting at the seams, further straining budgets already stretched by the economic downturn.
In some cases, higher enrollments mean that
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