31.   In some states, public colleges may waive the health service fee if the student submits a copy of private health insurance coverage.

32.   In the next few months, the Board of Higher Education plans to tackle both entrance standards and graduation requirements for education programs at public colleges.

33.   It is the best shot at a virtually free, respectable public college degree for working-class youths from all over Mexico.

34.   It authorized a public college or university to waive fees and tuition for a qualifying former POW.

35.   Last October, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education authorized planning for a laptop requirement at the University of Massachusetts and other public colleges in the state.

36.   Last year, California voters approved a ballot initiative to ban preferences based on race or sex in state hiring, contracting or admission to public colleges and universities.

37.   Many public colleges and universities are reimbursed by their states for each full-time student.

38.   Machen, leading a fight for other public colleges as well, has refused to go along.

39.   Madhubuti is a professor at Chicago State University, a mostly black public college on King Drive.

40.   Morales then interpreted the Hopwood decision as a ban on affirmative action in all Texas public colleges.