As state support for higher education erodes, public universities need to develop distinctive niches, become entrepreneurial and self-supporting, and recognize that no matter how much they lobby, their days of counting on state legislatures to subsidize their programs are nearing an end, the authors of a forthcoming book told an international gathering of business deans on Thursday.

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