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July 14, 2010
Tuition charges at both public and private colleges have more than doubled in a generation. So are colleges giving good value for the investment?
Andrew Hacker, professor at Queens College, and Claudia Dreifus, adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, have studied institutions and interviewed higher-education leaders, policy makers, and students across the United States. Their conclusion: Colleges are taking on too many roles and doing none of them well.
Proposals to set things right:
The article is adapted from Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids - and What We Can Do About It, published next month by Henry Holt/Times Books.
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