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'The Shadow University' Rated One of the 10 Best Books about Problems in Higher Education
George Leef of The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy has listed what he considers to be the 10 top books concerning serious, sometimes hidden, problems in our nation's universities. We're pleased to see that FIRE co-founders Alan Charles Kors' and Harvey Silverglate's book, "The Shadow University," about the rise of speech codes and the erosion of liberty at America's universities, made the list. Click here to see which other books made the list.
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