In their rush towards development before 1990, every Arab country hugely expanded free state universities.
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Recently I listened as a pundit extolled the virtues of state universities and community colleges.
Will this mean that state universities lose students and professors to their private competitors?
Between 2005 and 2007, data was collected from 24 four-year institutions, including state universities and liberal-arts colleges.
Today in Michigan, not only can school boards authorize charters but so can state universities and community colleges.
We continually hear of superior resident students being rejected by in-State universities and being forced to attend out-of-State schools.
The top 33.3 percent could find a place in one of the California State Universities, which were also tuition-free.
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Just ask anyone at California state universities, or in Massachusetts, Washington, New York, or anywhere else in the nation.
Community colleges have done better at recruiting non-whites than the larger state universities.
State universities have also virtuously kept financial aid for poorer students in place.
In Rio de Janeiro's state universities, 20% of places are set aside for black students who pass the entrance exam.
Will scientists at UVA or other state universities, perhaps concerned about lawsuits, word their findings more carefully in the future?
Are taxpayers and politicians being irrational or at least short-sighted in reducing the proportion of income used to finance state universities?
California's state universities have to send over a third of their entering class to take remedial courses in English and maths.
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Experiments by scientists at Oregon and Portland State Universities leave no doubt that this mutation puts its carriers at a disadvantage.
Since 1980, spending per student at Egypt's 15 state universities, with a current enrolment of nearly 1m students, has fallen by half.
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Earlier this year the same court overturned an AK law aimed at relaxing the ban on the Islamic-style headscarf in state universities.
One of best-kept secrets in college admissions this coming year is that many top state universities will be admitting more out-of-state applicants than they ever have.
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The course was so successful that the school's president decided to expand online courses, including humanities, which will also be rolled out to other California State universities.
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Formal collaboration initiatives with the North Carolina Central University, Durham, United States of America, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia and Enugu State Universities in South Eastern Nigeria are ongoing.
In addition, some state universities that do offer small academic awards are often available to students who are state residents, or on a reduced basis for out-of-state students.
Students tend to stick with state universities during hard times.
No, they probably will not get a full-ride based on grades, and they may not get ANY aid based on grades at a lot of colleges, especially state universities.
Your list can include community colleges, state universities, institutions offering two-year degree programs, private colleges (regardless of sticker price), colleges close to home and colleges away from home, even out-of-state.
My wife and daughter are public school teachers and I am the beneficiary of 20 years of public education with three degrees from state universities, including a doctorate in education.
They, and their parents, are increasingly worried that the country's old-fashioned state universities (private ones are banned under Greece's creaking constitution) cannot prepare them for jobs in the Internet age.
Worse yet, we are allowing the functional equivalent of wasting taxpayer dollars since taxpayers funds are allocated to the state universities and most of the NCAA D-1 schools are state supported.
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Patrick Callan of the National Centre for Public Policy and Higher Education points out that state universities experience extremes of the economic cycle pampered in good times, spurned when budgets turn red.
Many of the kids who went to college, many of them going to state universities, were the first in their family ever to graduate from college or even from high school.
The launch of Turkey's first official Kurdish-language television channel in January and the government's calls for the establishment of Kurdish literature departments at state universities have raised hopes of more reforms.
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