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France’s Professors Vow to Continue Fight Against Reform Efforts

Quoted: Gilles Bousquet is dean of international studies and director of the International Institute at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. A native of France who has spent much of his academic career in the United States, he says that since 1968, universities have cast themselves in the role of the “educational conscience of France,” even though “this is largely a construct that doesn’t work in reality.”