Addressing the Challenges facing American undergraduate education
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Serious challenges face American higher education and our nation’s continued economic competitiveness and security. Some of these challenges have been identified during the multiyear effort to reauthorize the Higher Education Act and in several recent reports, including A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education by the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, Rising Above the Gathering Storm by the National Academies and Mortgaging our Future by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance.
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