Monday, January 24, 2011

Meet Societal Challenges by Changing the Culture on Campus

The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 16, 2011

By Elliot L. Hirshman and Freeman A. Hrabowski
American higher education has an extraordinary record of accomplishment in preparing students for leadership, in serving as a wellspring of research and creative endeavor, and in providing sustained public service. Despite this success, we are facing an unprecedented set of challenges. To maintain America's global pre-eminence, we must substantially expand the number of students we educate, increase the proportion of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and address the pervasive and longstanding underrepresentation of minorities who earn college degrees, including in those STEM fields.

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