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...recent op-ed in The New York Times by Yale chief investment officer David Swensen and his associate Michael Schmidt encouraged turning newspapers into “nonprofit, endowed institutions—like colleges and universities?? [to enhance] autonomy while shielding them from the economic forces that are now tearing them down.” This is incredibly foolish, not to mention expensive: The last thing we need populating the news business is hundreds of lumbering, immortal white elephants sucking the talent out of the business of economically reporting news. Most damagingly, newspaper bailouts, endowments, and other artificial...
...known as a school’s yield—and Harvard’s figure of 76.2 percent set the mark last year. This ranking list is the latest in a series published by US News. Harvard was also recently ranked first in the “National Universities?? category of US News’s Best Colleges 2009. Despite the favorable recognition these distinctions are meant to convey, they provide distorted information to prospective students and potentially influence admissions office decisions at colleges trying to game the rankings. For this reason, Harvard should remove itself from...
...though the impact of the alleged Madoff scheme has touched other Boston-area universities??Tufts reported $20 million in investment losses on Friday—some Harvard affiliates affected by Madoff have been more fortunate. Carl and Ruth Shapiro, the Boston couple who lost nearly half their foundation’s assets through Madoff’s fund, pledged in a statement last week to honor “all existing commitments.” Their couple’s foundation has supported many initiatives at Harvard-affiliates including the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women?...
...middle-income initiative was felt across higher education, with Yale quickly following suit with a similar financial program. Stanford also expanded its aid program to make tuition free for families making less than $100,000 and other elite universities??including those in the Ivy League, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago—quickly followed suit...
...Essayist Joseph Epstein recently wrote a critique of Brooks’s “valedictocracy” in the Weekly Standard. According to Epstein, the “good student”—the one who meets assured success at elite universities??has “only one pertinent question, which is, What does this guy, his professor at the moment, want? Whatever it is—a good dose of liberalism, libertarianism, feminism, conservatism—he gives it to him, in exchange for another A to slip into his backpack alongside...