... and a New Compact With Their States

By FRANK NEWMAN and LARA COUTURIER

Public colleges and universities must contend with proliferating numbers

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of for-profit and virtual competitors, all the while they are struggling among themselves for better students and faculty members, more money for research, higher rankings, and winning

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First Person

4 Rules of Lateness
Notes From Academe

Coal Into Honey
Commentary

Skeptical of Slippage

Past Coverage

Balancing State Control With Society's Needs - June 27, 2003
How Can Colleges Prove They're Doing Their Jobs? - September 3, 2004
Higher Education Isn't Meeting the Public's Needs - October 15, 2004
Public Colleges Release Plan to Measure Their Performance - July 13, 2007
The Higher Education Amendments of 1998: the Impact on Colleges and Students - October 16, 1998

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