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A Tough-Love Manifesto for Professors

If we want graduates who won't disgrace us, we have to reverse the deprofessionalization of faculty members

By THOMAS H. BENTON

Ask any older employer of recent graduates and you'll hear that most bachelor's degrees are inferior to the high-school diplomas of a generation ago, and, what's more, that there is a gross sense...

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