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Reply to "NY Times editorial: "Universities Like Yale Need a Reckoning""
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[quote=Anonymous]He has a list of reasons the public hates elite universities at the moment: * Seemingly uncontrollable tuition costs * Leftist ideological purity * Opaque admissions policies * Professionalized athletics * Prestige-driven meritocracies that create exclusive bubbles of self-importance * Endowment hoarding The essay frames “them” as blue-collar Americans, but I think there’s a large number of highly-educated doughnut hole families on DCUM that concur with many if not all of the items on this list. One proposal for correcting course would be to reverse some of these items: eg, freeze tuition, make admissions criteria clearer. He has another proposal, not at all fleshed out: a public education “moonshot” to support public high schools and colleges. I took that as a quiet concession that from his point of view elite universities may be beyond hope. [/quote]
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