June 16, 2006

Backlash Over Enrollment Proposal at U. of Illinois Leads to Quick Retraction

By SAM KEAN

The metrics seemed so modest: If the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign could bump up its percentage of out-of-state students from 11 to 15, it could increase the average ACT score of incoming freshmen by a few tenths.

But the public saw different numbers: the $711-million in taxpayer funds given to the university for 2007 and the hundreds of Illinois residents who would be turned away from the flagship campus.

The result? A threatened inquiry by the state legislature

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