Bribery is only the tip of the elite-college iceberg: An interview with Jim Sleeper
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Bribery is only the tip of the elite-college iceberg: An interview with Jim Sleeper

This is a quiet, thoughtful conversation about what’s happening to higher education. I was interviewed by Prof. Matthew Frye Jacobson, an historian who was the chair of Yale’s American Studies Department until recently and is the director of Historian’s Eye Project (historianseye.org). This interview was conducted at Yale well before the current bribery scandal at selective colleges, including Yale. It pretty much predicted the whole thing but put it in necessary perspective.

Pay To Play With Yale Admissions?

Pay To Play With Yale Admissions?

   from washingtonpost.com FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college-entrance bribery scheme by  Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky | March 12  The Justice Department on Tuesday charged more than 30 wealthy people — including two television stars — with being part of a long-running scheme to bribe and cheat to get their kids into…

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from washingtonpost.com Opinion by Mitch Daniels | Mar. 11th, 2019 Students walk on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., in November 2015. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Mitch Daniels, a Post contributing columnist, is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana. A growing staple on the menu of most colleges and universities…