In 1951, a brash, young college graduate sent shock waves through the American establishment. Bill Buckley (Yale ’50) published his instant bestseller, God and Man at Yale. In what was to become Buckley’s well-known style, he laid bare the “extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude” of his alma mater, Yale University.
The lower number may signal that the unstable admissions landscape is starting to settle — that fewer colleges are hard-pressed to meet their enrollment benchmarks.
The slow uptake of Covid-19 shots among people 18 to 29 years old is complicating the mass vaccination campaign, prompting the federal government to ramp up outreach to young adults.
Summit of dozens of leaders of faculty and staff in higher education develops an ambitious agenda. They want “the common good over profit and prestige.”