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Economic Woes Require Strategic Investment

Trusteeship
January/February
2009
Number: 
1
Volume: 
17
By 
Edwin H. Welch

These are the most troubling and challenging times that today's higher education leaders have ever seen. Families feel that they cannot afford the cost of higher education. Endowments are down and fundraising, too. Students and institutions are finding it difficult to borrow money.

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About the Author: 

Edwin H. Welch is president of the University of Charleston in West Virginia.