Ricardo Azziz, writing in Higher Ed Dive: “What makes our higher education system more fragile than the situation faced by other Western nations is that the U.S. has, proportionally, many more small and private institutions…. Private donors, churches, and localities established the sector. Consistent with the American ethos, great emphasis was placed on these institutions’ private and autonomous nature.” Read the full commentary here.
PERSPECTIVES: Historical Perspective on Why American Colleges are Under So Much Pressure
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