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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory arrives for a memorial service for former North Carolina Gov. James Holshouser at Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Southern Pines, N.C., Friday, June 21, 2013. Holshouser, North Carolina's first Republican governor elected in the 20th century, died Monday at age 78. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, Pool)
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory arrives for a memorial service for former North Carolina Gov. James Holshouser at Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Southern Pines, N.C., Friday, June 21, 2013. Holshouser, North Carolina's first Republican governor elected in the 20th century, died Monday at age 78. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, Pool)

Universities in South Dakota, Nebraska and other states have cut the number of credits students need to graduate.

A proposal in Florida would let online courses forgo the usual higher-education accreditation process, while a California legislator introduced a measure that would have substituted online courses for some of the brick-and-mortar kind at public universities.

Some campuses of the University of North Carolina system are mulling getting rid of history, political science, and various others of more than 20 “low productive” programs. The University of Southern Maine may drop physics. And governors in Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin have questioned whether taxpayers should continue subsidizing public universities for teaching the humanities.

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