We’re losing our minds: Rethinking American higher education

We're Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-205

  Keeling, Richard P ^b   Hersh, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137001764     Document Type: Book

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