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摘要

[In response to "Higher Ed Must Innovate Its Way Out of the Student Debt Crisis," From the Bell Tower, Steven Bell, 6/14/18; ow.ly/aIOj30l6j30], from my academic library post, I see a bifurcation in higher ed. Prestigious research universities...with large endowments and reputations that attract students who can afford to pay are doing fine. At public colleges there are steps happening, such as New York's Excelsior scholarship, that make me think public demand may begin to restore the funding long cut from state school systems and make public college tuition affordable to the masses again. Meanwhile, small private institutions without famous names are struggling...; several have already closed. At public and smaller private colleges alike there is a push to drive students toward online classes geared to the working adult learner.