"The cherished academic view that higher education started out on the acropolis and was desecrated by descent into the agora led by ungodly commercial interests and scheming public officials and venal academic leaders is just not true. If anything, higher education started in the agora, the market, at the bottom of the hill and ascended to the acropolis at the top of the hill... (p. B6)."
Trow (1988) asserted it is precisely the attention to market that has enabled American institutions of higher education to provide greater opportunity for students than can be found in any other nation. American colleges and universities will meet the need for cost control and will continue to offer access to higher education unparalleled in the world.
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