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Events • February 12, 2019 

# Putting the Ivory Tower Together Again: Identifying and Fixing the Faults — Welcoming Remarks and Panel I: Don’t Know Much about Higher Ed History 

To fix the ivory tower, we need to know something about how it was constructed, why, and its record of performance. Indeed, we need to ask if it has ever worked as well as we would like.

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Former Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. Coeditor of the Cato book Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America’s Broken Ivory Tower

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