University of Minnesota Law Considers Dropping State Funding

As I noted last fall, the University of Minnesota School of Law is in for big state budget cuts in the upcoming years.  Now we learn that the university's provost is considering a proposal that would essentially privatize funding of both the law school and the business school.  The percentage of the school's budget provided by the State of Minnesota is expected to drop below 10% next year in any case.  Naturally, this change would put pressure on both fundraising and tuition – but it also follows in the line of Michigan, Virginia, Berkeley, and (assuming the proposal goes forward after the departure of Dean Paul Berman) Arizona State.