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President Derek C. Bok and other top university executives are meeting with Boston-area business leaders to discuss strategies for defeating the November ballot initiative sponsored by the Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT), officials of participating universities said yesterday...
...CLT petition would roll all state taxes and fees back to their 1988 levels, forcing state officials to cut more than $1 billion from this year's budget. Shattuck said that public and private universities alike would feel these cuts through a loss of state scholarship funds and a reduction of basic municipal services...
...CLT would have an impact that would be devastating to education at all levels," said Barbara Rubel, director of community relations at Tufts University, which has participated in the discussions...
State education experts said yesterday that the greatest danger posed by the CLT petition is the potential loss of state scholarship funds...
Even in the best-case scenario, students would receive only 40 percent of the state financial aid now available if CLT passes, said Clare M. Cotton, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts. Cotton said that the cuts could be so severe that the state would have to eliminate all scholarship funds...