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Inside Higher Ed

January 6, 2012

Two separate but related themes are dominating this week's meeting of presidents of the mostly small private institutions that make up the Council of Independent Colleges. An impassioned opening speech by Nannerl O. Keohane, former president of Duke University and Wellesley College, represented the cheerleading part of what associations and other groups often do for their members. The second role that higher ed groups often play - exemplified by a workshop given by two experts on higher education finance - is more akin to a parent giving a reluctant child his or her medicine.

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