Jay Schalin, director of policy analysis at the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, discusses the recent emergence of independent academic centers on or near college campuses. Schalin offered these comments during an April 6, 2015, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
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