6:00 p.m.: Wine and Hors d’Oeuvres Reception
7:00 p.m.: Program and Q&A
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Book: Let Colleges Fail, $15 per copy (50% off)
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Join us for a reception and discussion of Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder’s groundbreaking new book Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education that provides new strategies for regaining excellence in higher education. In conversation with Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness, Vedder will address the many problems vexing America’s college campuses—including falling enrollments, sky-high tuition, and suffocating ideological rigidity, to name but a few —and offer innovative solutions.
Is it possible to recover the educational institutions that once served America so well? What reforms, if any, can bring us back to a true marketplace of ideas?
Drs. Vedder and Magness will address these questions and more in what promises to be a stimulating, can’t-miss event from Independent Institute.
“Colleges routinely fail to educate their students, produce valuable research, or foster critical discussion, but—thanks to government support—they almost never fail to survive. In Let Colleges Fail, Richard Vedder, one of the world’s greatest collegiate whistleblowers, courageously calls for accountability. If schools can’t pass the market test, government can and should let them go out of business. Letting failed institutions die, though rarely popular, is immensely beneficial for society. And few institutions have failed society more egregiously than higher education.”
—Bryan Caplan, professor of economics, George Mason University
