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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

To be sure, as Robert Kelchen, an expert on higher ed finance and head of the University of Tennessee’s Education Leadership and Policy Studies department, notes : “undergraduate education is only a part of what” even public flagships do. ” Still, what we are witnessing is a deepening divide.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

Graduate assistants and postdoctoral researchers are scarce in many localities without robust traditions of graduate education of their own. A professional network represents the best social safety net for an expatriate, and cultivating one is time well spent in those conditions. Import of laboratory equipment is costly.