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Doug Lederman is co-editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed. Dad. Oft-injured weekend warrior.

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The Tension Between Access and Quality

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By Doug Lederman
| Inside Higher Ed Verified
In what was little more than an aside in my last column about the potential desirability of taking a more metropolitan or regional approach to coordinating higher education, I mentioned learning mobility (a broader term for transfer of credit) as one of several issues on which colleges should cooperate more and differentiate less on behalf of learners.
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Coordinating Colleges at the City Level

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By Doug Lederman
| Inside Higher Ed Verified
A lifetime ago, when I was overseeing reporting projects at The Chronicle of Higher Education in the early 1990s, my colleagues and I had what struck me as a brilliant idea for a major editorial undertaking. We would send a team of reporters to a reasonably sized American city—we pictured Pittsburgh—to examine how the various colleges and universities in the region were competing to serve students, businesses and others.
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We Need a Bipartisan Commission on Postsecondary Education and Training

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By Doug Lederman
| Inside Higher Ed Verified
Now and then, a ray of hope emerges that maybe we aren’t doomed to a permanent partisan war over what postsecondary education is and should be. One occurred this month when the last two U.S. under secretaries of education, Nicholas Kent and James Kvaal, actually found a good bit of common ground about the need for “value-based accountability” for colleges and universities.
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