University of Connecticut aims high

Once a school with deteriorating facilities, the University of Connecticut now boasts rising test scores among entering freshmen and spruced-up academic facilities, thanks to a nearly $2 billion taxpayer-funded construction investment. Now that the university has been transformed into a modern campus with sparkling new buildings and programs that attract more of Connecticut’s best students, who once went outside the state for higher education, university officials say they want new president Michael Hogan to take the university up another level.

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