In an era in which college athletes are able to be compensated for their skills and stardom, some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions have been unwilling to pay up.
The technicians who keep America’s colossal data centers humming enjoy huge demand and earnings potential—and defy the traditional blue- and white-collar categories of work.
A new book says the diverse experiences of Harvard undergrads during the COVID-19 pandemic carry larger lessons for higher ed—namely that the off-campus lives of low-income students deeply affect their lives on campus. Highly selective universities have welcomed unprecedentedly diverse classes in recent years. That’s a laudable development, Anthony Abraham Jack argues in his new book, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price (Princeton University Press), but institutions lack understanding about the students they’ve recruited.
