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From the Vice Provost: Centering the student experience

One of the hot topics on the MSU Family Facebook page last weekend was Michael Smerconish’s CNN interview of Jeffrey Selingo.  Smerconish described Selingo’s list of the “New Dream Schools,” and Michigan State University is one of them.  These are colleges and universities that are not focused on prestige, but rather “on value, on access, and outcomes.”

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