Date:
Thu, 2011-10-20
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The centre cannot hold Rivalry with Ivy Leaguers and for-profits is harming the 'squeezed middle', discovers Charles Middleton Richard DeMillo's use of the word in the title of his challenging book on the future of US higher education suggests that we are in for trouble. And soon. The book's premise, with ample examples of institutional practices and beliefs to sustain it, is that while US colleges and universities enjoyed a stellar period of growth and excellence in the 20th century, that supremacy is not only threatened by institutions in other countries but is certain to erode in the 21st.
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