Possibly following the model of The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) - turn West Chester into a selective public LAC, charge more tuition and pretend to be on par with the state flagship - it works for TCNJ, so why not? None of this serves the population that these colleges were originally created for. But we always have the NY Times to suggest the optimal solution - again, just today: admit more Pell Grant students to the Top 25 universities. The comments section was quite illuminating, however.