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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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A. Kimball and Sarah M. As Kimball and Iler show, the wealthiest 1 percent of the nation’s 3,285 four-year colleges and universities holds 54 percent of campus endowments. Such an argument, the authors show, is grossly exaggerated.

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My Reading List Is Too Long!

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Wealth, Cost, and Price in American Higher Education: A Brief History (2023)—Bruce A. Kimball with Sarah M. She is co-author of When Colleges Close: Leading in a Time of Crisis. Wechsler and Steven J. Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do About It (2022)—Colin Diver.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Kimball is a professor emeritus of educational studies at Ohio State University and a former Guggenheim fellow. They are the authors of Wealth, Cost and Price in American Higher Education: A Brief History (Johns Hopkins University Press), published in January. Kimball Sarah M. Iler Is this diversity newsletter?: