Production
Ā Penned over a decade ago, modified slightly here.Ā The number and value of college degrees produced in the U.S. will be a bone of contention for a long time, and the marrow of that bone is that the cost ofā¦
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Academic Market Forces
This essay was written a decade ago and is modified here. The thoughts still have value in helping students plot productive futures. Ā The higher education marketplace is special and unique and provides something unlike any other enterprise. But, itā¦
Citizenship and Opportunity
The excerpt is from a speech I gave on March 26, 2004, at a Naturalization Ceremony on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale recognizing the culmination of years of effort for many to become U.S. citizens. Naturalization isĀ the processā¦
