Are colleges “endangered?”

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Article link: Colleges: an endangered species?

Andrew Delbanco ponders in the New York Review of Books (March 10, 2005) what a college education means today: “for the relatively few students who still attend a traditional liberal arts college—whether part of, or independent from, a university—what do they get when they get there?

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