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Higher education and the american political economy

✍ Scribed by Edgar Litt

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1981
Tongue: English
Weight: 683 KB
Volume: 1981
Category: Article
ISSN: 0271-0633
DOI: 10.1002/tl.37219810603

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Despite the utilitarian, even anti‐intellectual bias of the public vocational university, there was until recently a good opportunity to select liberal arts and pursue one's educational interests. What has happened during the last decade illustrates the unintended consequences of social good.

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