2024-03-192024-03-192017-11-02https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/55139South Carolina’s institutions of higher education have recently come under scrutiny for key issues, including high tuition rates, declining African-American enrollment, and an outsized percentage out-of-state students receiving tuition discounts. These issues are symptoms of a larger, underlying cause—the universities’ budgets and the current funding model. With future trends for increased competition for a dwindling pool of 4-year college applicants, these issues will worsen.application/pdfRecords, documents, and information made available by the agencies of the South Carolina state government or its subdivisions are the property of the people of the state of South Carolina. Therefore, according to U.S. copyright law, the South Carolina State Library considers these items to be in the public domain (see Title 17, U.S.C.).Education, Higher--South Carolina--Statistics