After the Crash, Scholars Say, Higher Education Must Refocus on Its Public Mission

The economic crisis weighed on the minds of the 200 scholars who gathered here last week for a national conference of the Network for Academic Renewal, a project of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. But even as the federal government announced that 660,000 more jobs had been lost in March, several of the speakers here saw—or perhaps grasped for—reasons for hope.

The recession, they said, might be a time for colleges to renew their implicit contract with

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