Workplace and Higher Education: Perspective for the Coming Decade, 1979 : Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Examination on the Future of Higher Education and the Provision of Well-trained Persons for the Public and Private Employment Sectors of the Economy, June 6 and 7, 1979 |
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