My alma mater grows up

From USA Today:

With 51,000 students on the main campus, plus 10,000 more at three branches around Phoenix, ASU is already among the country's largest traditional universities. But unlike any current rivals for that title, it plans to keep growing -- to about 90,000 students over the next decade.

Sounds like an exciting time to be at ASU, though I do see the point of one critic in the story who complained that students are getting a community college education at a university price.

Source: USA Today

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