WASHINGTON -- Public colleges must increase access by keeping costs of attendance down and harnessing technology to engage and educate students, a parade of big-name speakers said Tuesday at a conference celebrating the sesquicentennial of the national legislation that established public universities. Students, professors and higher education officials gathered at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities' event -- 150 Years of the Morrill Act: Advancing the Legacy -- to discuss how to continue fulfilling the law's objectives. The Morrill Act, passed in 1862, donated public lan...