Growing brain drain: University of Alabama's gain ... is a loss for Illinois

Stephen Burd was cited in a Chicago Tribune article about merit aid and out of state recruiting at public universities:

Stephen Burd, a senior policy analyst at the New America Foundation who has extensively studied university financial aid, said schools’ reliance on merit-based aid essentially creates a bidding war for the best students.

“The only question to me is if everyone starts doing it, how effective is it?” Burd said. “It’s an arms race; you have to keep increasing what you’re giving. It’s hard to see how this won’t just keep ratcheting up.”