<p>I just listened to a very interesting NPR On Point interview with a Columbia professor who speaks of the ongoing decline in higher education and warns of unsustainability of the current system for a variety of reasons:</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/09/shaking-up-higher-ed[/url]”>WBUR;
<p>I haven’t read the book yet, but he seems to suggest that part of the solution would be to develop higher education networks and greater integration, combining online learning, with some brick and mortar and more fluid global exchange of information.</p>