April 29, 2009
Debate Over Cost of College Starts With Who Gets to Define the Problem
College leaders, faculty members, and financial officers agree that the cost of higher education amounts to a crisis, but they have different ideas about how to resolve it, says a report released today by the nonpartisan research group Public Agenda.
"Extended discussion and dialogue" among those groups and others will be necessary in making "perhaps difficult decisions" during what may turn out to be a prolonged economic downturn, the report says.
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