Maybe the story is in the price
Yours truly received the ad above via email. I haven’t read the book but wonder if, just maybe, the story is told in its price. (If you have trouble reading the image above, click on it for a larger picture.)
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Chris Newfield @ UCLA, Feb. 22
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Public Universities under Trump Lessons from the Era of Privatization Wednesday, February 22, 3:30-5 PM 6275 Bunche Hall, UCLA Free and open to the public. Location Information Privatization, student debt, and over-building have led public universities to the brink of disaster. So argues UCSB professor Christopher Newfield in his new book. Only by embracing their
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Privatized Strawberries at Davis
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There are at least two ways to skin the business school self-sufficiency cat
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UCLA MBA Goes Self-Sufficient
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