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ACCESSIBILITY ATTEMPTS Is ‘Equitable Access’ Derailing the Campaign for Free Course Materials? By Taylor Swaak Some affordability advocates fear flat-rate programs for textbooks are an existential threat to open educational resources, or OER. Others say they don’t have to be. ADVERTISEMENT COLLEGE MATTERS FROM THE CHRONICLE By Jack Stripling Outside consultants are helping cash-strapped colleges cut programs — and are taking the heat for it too. BACKGROUNDER How One University’s Cost Cutting Became Mired in Confusion and Distrust By Erin Gretzinger and David Jesse The data-driven process that consultants purport to offer at places like the U. of North Carolina at Greensboro can be frustratingly subjective, a Chronicle and Assembly investigation finds.
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ACCESS & AFFORDABILITY The Cost of College Tuition Is Shrinking By Dan Bauman Despite widely held assumptions among consumers, the average net price for undergraduate tuition has actually decreased, when adjusted for inflation, for more than a decade. THE REVIEW On Polarization and the Study of History By Len Gutkin Two historians revisit some recent dust-ups in the profession.
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