American Universities Woo High-Paying Foreign Students

(NEW YORK TIMES)Foreign students at some of America’s state universities are footing the bill for low-income Americans, a recent article in The New York Times says.
With state financing cut by more than half in the last three years, officials at University of Washington have “decided to pull back on admissions offers to Washington residents, and increase them to students overseas,” who they charge higher tuition, the article says.
Not surprisingly, the decision has ruffled feathers in the United States, including among readers of the New York Times (see the discussion here). University officials are unapologetic:
If the university’s reliance on full-freight Chinese students to balance the budget echoes the nation’s dependence on China as the largest holder of American debt, well, said the dean of admissions, Philip A. Ballinger, “this is a way of getting some of that money back.”
A question from India Ink: Should foreign students pay substantially higher tuition at American universities? What if that encourages the school to admit more foreign students?