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Why Colleges May Be at a Breaking Point

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College students have been trained to look toward “the next step in their lives, the next aspiration, the next accomplishment, and they don’t even know how to stop doing that,” Ian Bogost tells Adam Harris of the professionalization of U.S. higher education:

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