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“I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.”

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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching…

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As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

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“surveys show that over 90 percent of professors believe that their teaching is above average,”

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For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a…

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Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed,…

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There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

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Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to…

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Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

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