According to a report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (NCPPHE), a nonprofit organization that promotes public policies that enhance higher education opportunity, 250,000 prospective students were locked out of college in 2003-2004 because of increased tuition or reductions in admissions and course offerings. The report, Responding to the Crisis in College Opportunity, offers a series of emergency measures to stem the crisis in college opportunity and ensure that all eligible students are able to enroll in and afford college. Moreover, it urges state governors and legislators to stop the freeze-out of students by making access to higher education the top priority of their higher education budgets. The NCPPHE long-term recommendations are that the states should begin a process to achieve major productivity increases in higher education-maintaining or decreasing the costs of delivering high-quality education; assuring transfer opportunity to four-year colleges for all qualified community-college students; and initiating a process to specify and implement long-term higher-education goal that would increase college access and completion. In the end, though, some of the emergency recommendations from the NCPPHE--particularly those which call for belt-tightening of already financially strapped educational institutions--could be called robbing Peter to pay Paul.