Tossing Out the Baby with the Bathwater

Council of Independent Colleges president Richard Ekman explains why he thinks that the current financial crisis could lead to some short-sighted planning decisions by colleges and universities:

"For students, institutional belt-tightening has led to important educational opportunities . . . . Colleges need to be deliberate about whether these changes should be touted as short-term or long-term fixes. . . . In this environment, an even more extreme possibility is that students will not value the serious study of any field when the premise of college-going has been contradicted by recent experience."

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