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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes. Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.)

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