Why Affordable Public Universities Are Vital to Our Democracy

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 1, 2016

At a time when government funding of public universities is at an all-time low, shifting the cost burden onto students and families, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson explains why maintaining affordable higher education is vital to the survival and success of our democracy in, “Save Our Public Universities: In Defense of America’s Best Idea,” her cover story for the March issue of Harper's magazine. 

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