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Why accountability efforts in higher education often fail

  • Written by Robert Kelchen, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Seton Hall University
Students from 2015 graduating class of Texas Southmost College.Brad Doherty/AP

As the price tag of a college education continues to rise along with questions about academic quality, skepticism about the value of a four-year college degree has grown among the American public.

This has led both the federal government and many state governments to...

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