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An Overview of Higher Education in the United States: Diversity, Access, and the Role of the Marketplace

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An Overview of Higher Education in the United States: Diversity, Access, and the Role of the Marketplace

November 10, 2004

​This publication describes the major characteristics of American higher education and important issues that challenge it, linking back as appropriate to essential philosophical underpinnings of American higher education history.

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