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“A Creative Adventure”: Undergraduate Research at the College of Wooster

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How Boards Oversee Educational Quality


To What End?

by Terry O’Banion
Inside Higher Ed, August 16, 2010


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What’s Going Right with Higher Education? The Revival and Reinvention of Liberal Education
I recently responded to a remarkably bad article that appeared last week in the Washington Post called “Is College Overrated?”  The article—inexplicably written by the paper’s dance critic—used a few anecdotes and the amazingly self-indulgent example of a wealthy entrepreneur deciding not to send his kids to college to launch a discussion about why college isn’t worth the time and money. More...


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AAC&U News is written and edited by Laura Donnelly-Smith. If you have questions or comments about the newsletter's contents, please e-mail donnelly-smith@aacu.org.

 

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