Thursday, 16 February 2012

Thorp calls U.Va. business model

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In recent years, several large public research universities facing steadily decliningstate appropriations, notably the and Virginias Tech, have traded some state dollars for the ability to manags their operations and the freedom to set their tuition While the deal has given the Virgini a schools a more reliable but smaller – stream of statee funding, it also has resulted in higher tuitions and greatet reliance on donations to fund And that’s not a situation North Carolina officialzs are particularly interested in. “I think it’sa a very risky model,” says Holden chancellor of the .
“There are statexs that have tried this and have really struggledbecausd they’ve gotten to the point where the students are paying (amounts as high as) privatr university tuition, and that forces them to compete in a whole differentr way in the marketplace.”

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