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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” He applied game theory to, among other topics, the Vietnam War, international trade negotiations and issues surrounding racial segregation. Editorial Tags: Liberal arts Image Source: Alvaro conde/Wikimedia Commons Image Caption: Thomas Schelling Is this diversity newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Status of student veteran enrollment at selective colleges (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

I had learned from this and Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character , also by Shay, that the damage of combat, physical wounds or not, is at least 10 times worse than I had imagined. Editorial Tags: Veterans Image Caption: The University of Chicago has ramped up its recruitment of and support for veterans.

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A Brief History of American Higher Education - Part Three

Susquehanna President's Blog

Bills including those after the Vietnam War and Post 9/11. At the Act’s conclusion in 1956, 5.6 million G.I.s had completed vocational training, and 2.2 million had attended college. A series of subsequent initiatives have been called G.I. This would make college truly affordable for many of our poorest families.

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Educational gag orders are a student rights issue (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Perhaps Sister Mary felt there were more pressing, more contemporary matters calling for attention—the things we read about in her expository writing class: the Vietnam War, only just then ended, or the deployment of weapons of mass destruction by the United States against the people of Japan in World War II.

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