Budget cuts imperil Virginia's largest and most welcoming university - Washington Post

Some candidates for public office in Virginia, particularly tax-averse Republicans, like to pretend that shrinking the size of state government is a simple matter of slaying the mythical dragon of "waste, fraud and abuse." The reality of budget-cutting is drastically different, and more painful, as anyone at the state's biggest institution of higher learning, Virginia Commonwealth University, can attest. No four-year school in Virginia has expanded faster than VCU, which added 8,370 students over the past decade and now has an enrollment of more than 32,000.