Connection, New England's Journal of Higher Education, April 1st, 2003
I have to confess that in the crush of deadlines, I was tempted for a brief moment to dust off a trends commentary from the early 1990s for double duty. Back then, you may recall, a tanking economy was squeezing New England state budgets, and the states, in turn, were squeezing public higher education: disinvesting for the future, if you will. Then, like now, the burden of dwindling resources was falling where it always falls, on the shoulders of students and families. Tuition and fees at New England's public colleges were heading skyward, as they surely will again.
Also in the early 1990s, l...
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