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Old 09-10-2009, 02:12 PM   #22
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Public colleges and universites are funded by taxes. I guess it doesn't matter anyways. If he says it, it must be true.
Most public universities do not get much in the way of taxpayer support. URI only gets about 15% of it's funding from taxes - the rest it earns in tuition, patents derived from research, its endowment and contributions.

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