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College Plays a Powerful Role in Achieving the American Dream

April 09, 2018

Mark McCoy, president of DePauw University (IN), writes:  I am an unlikely president of an liberal arts college. But as the son of a coal miner, a first-generation college student, and someone who works with college kids every day, I know firsthand the transformative power of higher education in America. I have witnessed how it breaks the cycle of poverty and dependence to develop leaders in all walks of life.

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