To my knowledge, it's never been done before. But we may see a wave of public universities going private over the next 10 years. Michigan, Cal, UCLA, Ohio State, Florida (hell, virtually all of the SEC schools), and of course CU are all state schools in states where public funding for higher education is taking a HUGE hit.
I can't help but think that if CU were a private school, Hawk would have been fired.
I wonder what the process would be to take a public school and make it a private one. Maybe in the case of CU, only CU-Boulder goes private, while the other campuses remain public. CSU is having big issues as well, maybe bigger than CU, because they don't have the foundation & endowments to fall back on that we have.
I can't help but think that if CU were a private school, Hawk would have been fired.
I wonder what the process would be to take a public school and make it a private one. Maybe in the case of CU, only CU-Boulder goes private, while the other campuses remain public. CSU is having big issues as well, maybe bigger than CU, because they don't have the foundation & endowments to fall back on that we have.