Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Your state: how does it structure its public univ's?

Please respond.... if you are interested:

Describe how your state structures its public university system:

• Does it have one flagship state university....or two?

• If two, how do they differ? Is the land grant school of the two leveling the playing field and going into areas like law and medicine? Are the two strongly differentiated in curricula (i.e. KU, K-State) or have considerable overlap (Mich, MSU)??

• Which university is its land grant college?

• Which (if any) are consider metropolitan universities?

• Which grew from normal (teaching) colleges?

• Are some part of a system? (like UC and CSU in Calif, UW in Wisconsin, UT in Texas, UNC in N. Carolina? Or are they all under one board (i.e. Iowa and Florida)

• Is competition between universities strong or weak?

• Do some schools have strong autonomy with little control from the state (almost private school with public funding, by nature).>

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