Anthony G. Collins, Cathy C. Dove & William L. Fox write: While national attention on New York’s higher education assets is welcome, government policy that artificially shifts enrollment growth to public colleges and universities doesn’t make the ongoing investment to taxpayers more affordable. Instead, it could have unintended consequences on both public and private institutions by increasing operating costs and the infrastructure needs on some campuses, duplicating enrollment capacity and/or boxing out students from programs due to finite capacity and new selectivity standards.