University of Akron offers buy-out to 47 percent of faculty

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Ohio does seem to have a lot of unversities for its size and population if you include both universities and their branches. There are 14 public universities and 23 branch campuses. I didn’t count the community or technical colleges. Governors Rhodes in the 1960’s wanted every Ohio student to have a college within 30 miles of every student. I think the reality is something like 50 for every Ohio student.

Putting universities where all or most in the state have a commutable option can help with affordability. Although looking from the map at https://www.ohiohighered.org/campuses/map , it looks like Akron and Dayton each have two state universities, while East Liberty and Marietta are places where the nearest state university is around 50 miles away instead of within 30 miles. Also, if some of the state universities have limited academic offerings, that may mean that some students in their areas cannot commute to one which offers their desired academic programs.