December 8, 2008
Economy Gives College Leaders Impetus to Explore Longer-Range Changes
Boston
As the economy worsens and pressure increases for colleges to cut costs and be affordable to financially squeezed families, institutions should consider long-term changes rather than short-term fixes, higher-education leaders and economists said at a conference here on Friday. Colleges need to make such changes not only to survive this downturn but to thrive afterward, they said.
The conference, which focused on the economic challenges facing higher education, was put on by the
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