Economix Blog: Jeffrey Selingo on Curing the College Dropout Syndrome

Talking with authors about their work.Jeffrey Selingo, the former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education and currently an editor at large there, is the author of a new book, “College (Un)Bound.” In it, he argues that the higher-education system is both vital to the American economy and “broken.” (An essay adapted from the book was published in the Education Life section of The Times last month.) My exchange with him, edited slightly, follows.You start your book by telling the story

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