Last week, Rice University in Houston held its eighth annual De Lange Conference, an event that is held every other year and is designed to bring experts and prominent figures to campus to focus on a topic of great concern to society. This year, that topic was “the future of the research university in a global age.”

In his opening remarks, Rice President David Leebron shared some sobering observations about the current state of higher education, including that its public reputation “is at a low point.”

“The higher education structure stands almost alone in its absence of deep structural change ...

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