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This week's featured story comes from Rutgers University.
President of AAU Warns of Growing Economic Divide in America
March 03, 2011
By John Chadwick
The president of the Association of American Universities told an audience of Rutgers academic and administrative leaders recently that the challenges facing higher education in 21st-century America are rooted in the growing disparities of wealth and income.More stories, featuring research news from Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and New Jersey, after the jump.“The most ominous threat to America and its institutions . . . is the growing and in some sense relentless division of wealth in this society,” said Robert M. Berdahl during a morning presentation, “Challenges Facing American Public Research Universities Today,” in the Board Room of Winants Hall.