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Higher Education Legislative Priorities: An Open Letter to Newly Elected Representatives and Senators

Huffington Post - Opinion Piece

January 16, 2011

I won't bore you with the usual exhortation about how higher education is a jewel in America's crown. I'm afraid that lately we have been on the national radar screen in negative ways: runaway tuition, a greater emphasis on research than on undergraduate teaching, and lack of response to the needs of the greater society. But the higher education community increasingly is facing these issues more squarely, and I offer for your consideration a few assertions and suggestions that would have a momentous impact on America's ability to remain a major force in the world of our children and grandchildren.

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