(AP) -- The president of the University of South Carolina has urged legislators not to dictate what colleges can charge for tuition or set a bar for how many out-of-state students they can accept.
Harris Pastides told a House budget-writing panel on Wednesday that colleges need the authority to make those decisions for themselves as they face another round of deep budget cuts. He notes just 10 percent of the university's funding comes from the state this year.
But the chairman of the panel that writes the higher-education budget says caps on tuition and out-of-state students remain a possibility for next school year. Rep. Chip Limehouse of Charleston says the limits could be written into the budget.
He says 75 percent of students should be from South Carolina.
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