Can Public Universities Stay Public?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Karen Rivedal: Can Public Universities Stay Public?, September 14, 2005

I have long maintained that the university crisis will occur as if overnight, after building up over a period of a number of years, a crisis created as legislators decline to fund an increasingly expensive and inefficient system of learning. This article notes one more element in the build-up - the overnight crisis isn't here yet, but it is getting closer. More...