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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. The Brookings study counts 100 regional public universities serving 1.2 Last fall, a white paper by O.U.’s There is big tension over purpose and identity.”.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. You may not know that name, but in the tech world, he’s now a big deal. Lots of people see this as a world-changing idea.

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