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Leaders Defend Quality of Massachusetts' State Colleges.
By Jenna Russell, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 18--LOWELL, Mass. -- The state's new report on public college performance sparked emotional responses yesterday from some college leaders, who attributed the poor showings by some colleges to budget cuts, tougher admissions standards, and graduation measures that exclude many students.
"What bothers me most is that it denigrates my students, my faculty, and staff," Salem State College's president, Nancy Harrington, said in an interview. "We are very good at what we do... We are better than we are reflected to be."
In 2002, Salem was among the three state colleges where fewer than 40 percent of incoming freshmen graduated in six years or less, the report said. The others were Framingham State and …
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Source: HighBeam Research, Leaders Defend Quality of Massachusetts' State Colleges.
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