No school can stand against the government’s limitless resources forever, says higher education finance expert Robert Kelchen.
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Posted inMagazine
Open a New Front for Racial Justice
The decades-long effort to push elite colleges to be more diverse has failed. Here’s a better strategy: demand more support for the underfunded colleges that already graduate most Black and Hispanic students, and plenty of white students as well.
Posted inBooks
Trust Fund U
In January 2021, when the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal challenging Harvard’s use of racial preferences in college admissions, the institution’s president, Larry Bacow, sent a note to the university community positioning Harvard as a righteous champion of social justice. The Court, he wrote, was threatening Harvard’s ability “to create […]
Posted inCollege Guide, Education, Magazine, September/October 2019
The Pre-College Racket
Elite universities are making millions off summer programs for teens. What are they really selling?
Posted inMain, Political Animal
David Brooks Tries to Understand the Youth
The New York Times columnist thinks college students are a lynch mob that doesn’t value debate.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
NLRB Denies Harvard’s Appeal In Graduate Student Union Election
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Harvard prevented a free and fair election on forming a graduate student union, clearing a path for another vote.
Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2017
Ivy League Endowments Under Fire
Liberals and conservatives agree that it’s time for ultra-wealthy colleges to start sharing their wealth.
Posted inMagazine
Making It, Part 2
This book sets off a psycho-physiological phenomenon called “reassurance-induced terror,” which can be defined roughly as the feeling you get when the pilot of the plane you’re riding in comes on the public address system to say that there’s nothing to worry about. Both the author, Bill Paul, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, and his main […]
