In the Spring 2001 Review of Higher Education, George Keller explores a wide range of demographic changes that will have an impact on higher education, discussing everything from changes in the world population and recent trends in immigration to interracial marriage and our aging population. In the section excerpted here, he examines the radical changes in the American family.
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