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Undermining our colleges: plans for increased federal involvement in higher education are likely to lead to federally mandated curricula and a profound change in current college offerings.

The New American

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Quick, name the top 10 universities in the world. If you started out with Harvard, you're not alone. Likewise, if you named Columbia, Princeton, MIT, and the University of Chicago, you'd be on the right track according to the 2006 "Academic Ranking of World Universities," published annually in China by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. As a quasi-official Chinese government project, the ranking is noteworthy not so much for the individual colleges and universities on the list, but for the one characteristic most of the listed institutions share--they're private. In fact, apparently oblivious to the irony, the Chinese communist government-sponsored list says nine of the ...

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