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The Next Generation University

May 29, 2013

The need to give more students access to high-quality public universities is clear. Yet many public colleges and universities are failing to respond. Rather than expanding enrollment and focusing limited public dollars on the neediest students, public institutions have increasingly adopted strategies to restrict enrollment and encourage the spending of student-aid dollars on merit awards, all in an effort to move up in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings. To provide equal access to education at a reasonable cost to an increasingly diverse mix of students, college and universities must rethink their strategies.