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Let Colleges Fail | Upcoming Event in Oakland. on 4/10

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Why are colleges failing and what can be done?

Phillip W. Magness and Richard K. Vedder discuss Vedder’s new book, Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 6:00 PM

Independent Institute, 100 Swan Way, Oakland, CA 94560
Details and Registration ➝
Join us for a reception and discussion of Senior Fellow Richard K. Vedder’s groundbreaking new book 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.

Featuring

Richard K. Vedder
Senior Fellow,
Independent Institute

Phillip W. Magness
David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy, 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)

Become a Member for discounted tickets to events. Then reach out to development@independent.org for your discount code.
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FEATURED BOOK

Let Colleges Fail

The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education

Richard K. Vedder
“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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