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Discuss “Executive Privilege”

I received an e-mail on October 17 that asked, "What will the Carnegie Mellon tuition be for 2006-2007?" The e-mail was an invitation to the 2006-2007 Undergraduate Tuition Meeting from Bill Elliott, CMU's Vice-President for Enrollment. "The trustees will make the final decision on the 2006?2007 tuition rate, but the recommendation made by President Cohon is critical. We need your help in formulating this recommendation," it read. I was honored to have been invited.

But the meeting turned out to resemble something more like a sales pitch than a discussion group, and the only means of giving feedback was to make a high-pressure, off-the-cuff speech before all of the guests. The event was not what I had expected.

The dinner guests entered and...

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