Three-Year Degrees? Changing Times May Demand Them

Trusteeship

July/August

2009

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Edwin H. Welch

The four-year degree has been the staple of American higher education since the founding of Harvard University in 1636.

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

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