November 28, 2008

Rising Enrollments Buoy Some Colleges, Burden Others

By KATHERINE MANGAN

Their Budgets Slashed, Public Colleges Share the Pain With a Glut of Applicants

At a time when the nation's economy is ailing and credit is drying up, Troy Carter thought he had found an affordable way to earn a four-year college degree: Stitch together an education at a community college and a state university.

But like millions of other students flocking to community colleges and public universities, he finds them struggling with financial problems of their own.

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