He's talking enrollment growth though. Enrollment cut for undergraduate raising admission standards is what Ohio needs.
Why? And, then, why to whatever your answer is? And then, are you sure the people in charge (Board of Trustees, Ohio Department of Higher Education, Statehouse) agree? Is the role of Ohio University to be/become an institution for the academic elite? Or provide broader access and transform young lives? It is an interesting discussion to have.
Difficult questions. I don't believe that every public four-year university in Ohio should be selective, but I also don't believe that none of them should be selective either. It gets back to the inherent flaws in the Ohio system that set every school out to empire build and ratchet up their admissions standards. Sometimes the latter has succeeded as we've seen with UC's improvements. At Akron though, it tanked enrollment and contributed to the school's fiscal nightmare.
There's nothing wrong with Ohio having a couple of elite public universities. That being said, those campuses should make every effort available to ensure access to their campus to qualified students from lower rungs on the socio-economic ladder and not become bastions of privilege like our friends in Oxford.
The University of California campuses do a very good job of being highly selective while maintaining a healthy degree of socio-economic diversity in their student bodies. What's needed in Ohio is a more structured system that prevents 8 public universities from all trying to turn themselves into Berkeley.