June 17, 2005

A Whining View of Higher Education

By ROBERT ZEMSKY

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The canary in the mine died in March in Atlanta. After nearly four decades of exhorting higher education to do better, the American Association of Higher Education announced following its annual meeting that it would close. Declining membership, exacerbated by a shift in the spending priorities of foundations, had left the organization without sufficient resources to continue. The larger problem, however, was that the association had run out of energy. A Japanese visitor to

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