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...impressive program that Ford selected for backing takes place under the vaulted gold arches of a former U.S. Mint building where the Community College of Philadelphia holds classes. Philosophy Professor Martin Spear and Sociology Professor Dennis McGrath caught the foundation's eye with an honors program aimed at the school's poor and minority students. Explains Spear: "We had to create a structure, a kind of intellectual community of students who would come to believe that we are doing something important." Seminars focus for a time on a particular century: its literature, its politics, its social movements...
...Chicago campuses with $26.6 million more this year. But for the foreseeable future, public universities will be at the mercy of the political priorities and economic conditions of the states. And until economic recovery swells tax receipts, many states will not have enough money to go around. -By Ellie McGrath. Reported...
...biggest difference between the two systems is what Stanford's Rohlen calls "the spirit that breathes life into the education system." That spirit glows in Japan and has weakened in the U.S. But, says Rohlen, "we have to find that spirit again in ourselves." -By Ellie McGrath...
...Ellie McGrath. Reported by William Blaylock and Bill Hackman/Paris
...enough to ask, "What are you doing in September?" And one senior wears a button with an inscription that answers the question for many seniors across the country this spring: YES ... I'M A SENIOR. NO ... I DON'T KNOW AND DON'T ASK! -By Ellie McGrath...