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Federal funding cuts are only one problem facing America’s colleges and universities

  • Written by Roger Meiners, Goolsby-Rosenthal Endowed Chair of Economics, University of Texas at Arlington
imageAmerican colleges and universities are often nonprofits, but they often operate in many of the same ways that businesses do. tc397/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Higher education is under stress. The highest-profile threat has been the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding to several universities, including Harvard, Columbia andNorthwestern...

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