The Biggest Challenges Facing American Universities

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 30, 2016

This is a rebroadcast from an interview that originally aired on January 27, 2016.

Former provost and current professor at Columbia University Jonathan Cole addresses some of the biggest problems facing American universities in his book Toward a More Perfect University. He discusses admission policies, testing, rising costs, preserving academic freedom and much more.

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