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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 1087070, member: 153"] I wouldn't be so confident. Before the 2000s, state funding for colleges was supported nationally. But Conn. was in the bottom quintile for support. Now that state funding has been stripped from high ed. nationally, state legislators in Conn. have come to understand that the rise in tuition to make up for the shortfall in funding requires that care is given to the top public university. This kind of pressure didn't exist in the 80s or 90s, at least to this degree. In the northeast, we often saw state funding being given to private institutions rather than state schools. And when you looked at the alma maters of state leaders in the northeast, they were usually private schools. [/QUOTE]