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In his provocative new book on higher education, College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students, Jeffrey J. Selingo posits that the current system is broken, and that colleges can no longer continue to “sell” the four-yea

At the undergraduate level, colleges and universities have always relied upon first-time, first year students as the foundation of their freshman class. Historically, these students were drawn from four categories: legacies, student athletes, students see

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