
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 22, 1993                   TAG: 9310280338
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
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Reader response to the five-part series "A College Education at What Cost?," which appeared in the Roanoke Times & World-News Sept. 12-16, was dominated by letters from academics who thought the stories by Philip Walzer, in particular, ("Professors Not Often in Class" and "Faculty Stars Seldom Shine for Undergraduates," Sept. 14) portrayed their profession unfairly and served more to mislead than to inform the public. Other readers, though, praised the reporting, and offered suggestions for how to slow the rising price of a college education in Virginia, without destroying its value.

The series was coordinated by The Associated Press and reported by the higher education writers at four of Virginia's daily newspapers, including Walzer, of The (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot and The Ledger-Star, and Madelyn Rosenberg of the Roanoke Times & World-News. Here are extracts of a sampling of the reader response.

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