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For decades, Western academics have enjoyed a comfortable sense of moral and intellectual superiority when looking across the Pacific. Whenever the conversation turns to higher education in the People’s Republic of China, Western scholars shake their heads with sympathetic pity. Everyone knows the setup: at every Chinese university, from Peking University down to the provincial…
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If you want to witness true, cinematic panic, don’t look at horror movies. Look at the public comment section of a federal regulatory docket when university presidents realize their golden moat has a leak. This week, the American Council on Education (ACE)—flanked by a coalition of 45 major higher education lobbying associations—submitted a scathing set…
