April 20, 2001

For Public Colleges, a Decade of Generous State Budgets Is Over

By SARA HEBEL and JEFFREY SELINGO

Public colleges' fiscal feasts are vanishing like so much stock-market wealth, forcing them to cope with serious financial shortfalls and mid-year budget cuts.

Students in some states, especially those in the Midwest and Southeast that have been

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