June 11, 2004

A Public Vision for Public Colleges

By PETER SCHMIDT

A team of leading policy experts wants states to rethink higher education. What the states want is unclear.

Table: Showing challenges that have prevented five states from adopting ideas to transform their higher-education systems.By PETER SCHMIDT

The policy wonks at the front of the room had come here to spark a revolution -- not with manifestoes, but with PowerPoint presentations and thick, statistics-laden reports.

They represented the National Collaborative for

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