81.   They validated her faith in the system, she said, adding that their successes seemed to be lost on the critics of public colleges.

82.   This year, for the first time, California is spending more for building and operating prisons than for its vaunted public colleges and universities.

83.   Though more wealthy students may be attending public colleges, they are still a fraction of the enrollment.

84.   Thus the pool which would be more than enough for a public college would last only into the first half of the Junior year at a private college.

85.   Tuition for nonresident students, however, will increase for all public colleges and universities.

86.   Tuition cuts have also been announced by public colleges in Massachusetts, but not by private institutions.

87.   Tuition revenue covers only one fifth of the budget at public colleges and two fifths at private ones.

88.   Unfortunately, UMass is also a place that operates with a politically inflicted inferiority complex, in part because this state has never had a public college governor.

89.   Typical of many public colleges, the University of Virginia does not have a formula but lets students on financial aid keep a large proportion of merit scholarships.

90.   Virginia did not make this determination regarding the make-up of its public college system on the unrealistic assumption that no other colleges exist.