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size Increase text size  They call it a public institution and
it sounds like one from its name, but 92 percent of the money to
run the University of Virginia comes from private sources. At
the University of Michigan the figure is 82 percent; at the
University of Illinois a mere 75 percent. The privatization of
the nation's greatest, once-public institutions of higher
learning is well under way.  About the Author  Nicholas von
Hoffman  Also by the Author  What would he tell Obama to do?
"America is rapidly privatizing its public colleges and
universities, whose mission used to be to serve the public
good," Katharine Lyall, president emeritus of the University of
Wisconsin, told the New York Times. "Public control is slipping
away." Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State
University, blames never-ending tuition increases on "public
higher education's slow slide toward privatizatio