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What are colleges for? Research, economic advancement, or making students more interesting
The Great American University: Its Rise to Prominence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected, by Jonathan R. Cole, PublicAffairs, 616 pages, $35
Higher Education: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, Henry Holt and Company, 288 pages, $26
More than nine Americans in 10 say that universities are among the nation's "most valuable resources," but they hold different and sometimes conflicting ideas about what universities are valuable for. Universities are expected to generate ideas and generate jobs, to prepare the next generation of leaders and open their doors to the great mass of high school graduates, to speak truth to power and serve as resources for those in power.
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