June 25, 1999

New Tuition and Budget Policies Force Public Colleges to Compete for StudentsMarket Forces and Accountability: Distributing Funds to SUNY's 4-Year Campuses

By PETER SCHMIDT

Several public-university systems are using new budget and tuition policies to force campuses to compete more aggressively in the market for students.

Starting July 1, the Oregon University System plans to use a new budget model that will allow each of its eight institutions to retain its own tuition revenue, rather than hand it over for system officials to pool for

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