University of Virginia Crisis Reflects Wider Fight

But the dispute long ago stopped being just about Virginia. Conflict over governing the university has become a proxy war in a much larger struggle over control of the nation’s public universities, with educational groups weighing in on opposing sides of the Virginia confrontation, and taking shots at each other. </P>Around the country, waning state support, rising tuition and the competitive threat of online education have raised fears about the future of public universities. Trustees

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