State Funding Limitations and Community College Open Door Policy: Conflicting Priorities?

@article{Hendrick2006StateFL,
  title={State Funding Limitations and Community College Open Door Policy: Conflicting Priorities?},
  author={Ruth Zimmer Hendrick and William H. Hightower and Dennis E. Gregory},
  journal={Community College Journal of Research and Practice},
  year={2006},
  volume={30},
  pages={627 - 640},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143762610}
}
Recent national budget shortfalls in the United States have caused many states to evaluate various ways to cut their budgets—including cutting education expenditures—while community college… 
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