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The ongoing efforts by some states to impose greater control over their public colleges and universities may result in lasting changes to the U.S. higher education landscape

In conservative states, a spate of recent laws gives legislators and governors more control over public higher education curriculum, take authority from faculty over educational policy decisions, and require the policing of faculty and programs for left-leaning bias.

States exercising increasing levels of control over public colleges and universities are moving toward a regulatory environment for higher education more like that for public elementary and secondary schools. The result could be public colleges and universities in t

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