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We all know the picture well. Each year hundreds of thousands of students enter institutions of higher education: universities, technical schools, state and private colleges. Many drop out and many are dropped out. Most achieve less than they are capable of accomplishing. These outcomes underline the dismal quality of higher education. The failures are not personal. They are institutional. Many of the brightest and the best are dimmed and diminished by the instructional organizations they enter.
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Vargas, E.A. (1996). A University for the Twenty-First Century. In: Cautela, J.R., Ishaq, W. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Behavior Therapy. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9826-5_10
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