Public colleges warned on privatization
Chronicle of Higher Education, (2005)Abstract
Reports on the possible subjection of public universities that are assuming some characteristics of private institutions to the vulnerability experienced by the private sector, according to a report released by credit-rating agency Standard & Poor's in May 2005. Factors that influenced public universities to adopt the ways of private colleges; Reason behind an increase in the autonomy of public universities; Institutional characteristics of large flagship universities that shielded it from cuts in state appropriations.