Public Higher Education: Too Big — and Far Too Important — to Fail
In a December 16, 2011, open letter to President Obama, Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan, wrote: “American higher education — particularly public higher education — is one of the monumental achievements of our country… responsible for America’s knowledge security — an intellectual wellbeing that advances health and medicine, business, social science, the arts, public policy and national defense.” Why on earth would an enlightened, forward-looking society put such a remarkable system of higher education at risk? But that’s exactly what we’re doing right now.
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by Gene D. Block, The Huffington Post.