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‘Why Stanford Should Clone Itself’
David L. Kirp, a professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, begins an essay last month in
The New York Times with the evidence that the status quo is unfair. A 2017 study showed that at 38 colleges, including five in the Ivy League, more students come from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the bottom 60 percent. These hyper-rich youths are a jaw-dropping 77 times as likely to attend an Ivy League college as those whose parents’ income is in the bottom 20 percent, he writes.
He cites public universities that have responded in his opinion, appropriately to the situation. Most enterprises where demand far outstrips supply would seize the opportunity to expand, Kirp writes. A handful of public universities like Arizona State have done precisely that. Last fall, Arizona State enrolled more than 128,000 undergraduate and graduate students at campuses across the state and online. Even as
Collier’s,
Saturday Evening Post, and the
Saturday Review of Literature during the 1930s and 1940s. After leaving government service he resumed his career as a freelance writer. From 1953 through 1974 Bryan wrote about fifty articles for
Holiday magazine and numerous pieces for other journals. Other pieces Bryan published in national magazines included biographical works on the Aga Khan, the duke of Edinburgh, Britain’s Princess Margaret, and Katharine Hepburn, and in 1965 he wrote a biography of John Armstrong Chaloner for the
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. His only work of fiction, a short story entitled “First Patrol,” appeared in