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** Why are colleges failing and what can be done?
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** Phillip W. Magness and Richard K. Vedder discuss Vedder’s new book, Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education.
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** Richard K. Vedder
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Senior Fellow,
Independent Institute
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** Phillip W. Magness
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David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy, Independent Institute

Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 6:00 PM

Independent Institute, 100 Swan Way, Oakland, CA 94560
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Join us for a reception and discussion of Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder’s groundbreaking new book ([link removed]) 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.

EVENT DETAILS

Schedule:

6:00 pm: Wine and Hors d'Oeuvres Reception

7:00 pm: Program with Q&A

Tickets:

$30/person, $25/person (Independent Members) Includes a copy of Let Colleges Fail (Save 50%),

OR $15/person, $10/person (Independent Members) with no book

RSVP required: Limited Seating (Early registration is recommended)

Space is limited—reserve your spot today for this stimulating, can’t-miss event from Independent Institute.
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** FEATURED BOOK
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** Let Colleges Fail
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** The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education
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** Richard K. Vedder
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“Richard Vedder continues to be our most astute diagnostician of the structural, economic, and functional catastrophe of American higher education in the twenty-first century.”
—Alan Charles Kors, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pennsylvania; cofounder, FIRE
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