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Kaplan U.'s Question: Do Colleges Serve Today's Students?
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A scene from a Kaplan U. commercial
The best piece of college marketing this year is a television ad that could easily be taken as a fingers-flapping, thumb at the nose to centuries of higher-education tradition. It's the Kaplan University spot that starts off showing a pensive-looking "professor" in the well of a wood-paneled lecture hall intoning to his students: "The system has failed you. I have failed you." The ad...
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