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The Troubled Future of Colleges and Universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Gary King  and
Maya Sen
Gary King
Affiliation:
Harvard University
Maya Sen
Affiliation:
University of Rochester
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The American system of higher education appears poised for disruptive change of potentially historic proportions due to massive new political, economic, and educational forces that threaten to undermine its business model, governmental support, and operating mission. These forces include dramatic new types of economic competition, difficulties in growing revenue streams as we had in the past, relative declines in philanthropic and government support, actual and likely future political attacks on universities, and some outdated methods of teaching and learning that have been unchanged for hundreds of years.

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The Profession Symposium: A Symposium on “The Troubled Future of Colleges and Universities”
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 83 - 89
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013

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