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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

Kimball and Sarah M. Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. 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. The top 3 percent holds 80 percent.

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My Reading List Is Too Long!

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This is what I’m up to this Monday morning. I’ve been working on finalizing my spring course—Current Issues in Higher Education: Policy and Practice—and I’m really excited about focusing on the following big issues: Concurrent enrollment/dual enrollment/early college. Kimball with Sarah M.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Iler is assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. 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?: