Gordon Gee: President, West Virginia University
New Books in Education
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What Is Public About the Public Universities?
i've got a second book coming out called, what is public about the public universities? John hawkins pressed his publishing and ad. When i became a university president in 19 80, 95 % american public thought higher education was an important good. Now it's below 50%. And the question is, why? Particularly when universities have never been more importantininthe body politic of this country. We are the economic engines. The minute we start cancelling them, we start trader warnings,. I think that many of us have lost our right to call ourselves universities any time. Universities are not places in which we should make people comfortable. These are places in which were about education. Were about
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