Private colleges see boom as budget cuts cause stumbles in California's state universities - CHRISTINA HOAG, Associated Press

California's public higher education crisis has a flip side: swelling enrollment, expanding faculty, and state-of-the-art construction at the state's private colleges and universities. With five years of funding cuts causing stumbles in the state's public higher education systems, California students are increasingly turning to private institutions, as well as out-of-state schools, to get their degrees. California independent colleges report big upticks in enrollment of both freshmen and transferring students disillusioned with spiraling tuition for fewer classes at California State University, University of California, and community colleges. http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/d2efa471a9b6432aa645648dcf6ebd0d/CA--Broken-Budgets-Calif-Private-Colleges