The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Debatable Return

Colleges spend millions on playing host to presidential debates. What do they get out of it?

By JEFFREY SELINGO

Coral Gables, Fla.

Four hours or so before the first presidential debate gets under way here at the University of Miami, Donna Shalala flits among the 135 students gathered in the lobby outside her second-floor office. Sporting a Miami-green jacket, the university's...

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