The Ivy League Schools That Need the Tuition Revenue

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In the Ivy League, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Brown were the five schools that had more students from the 1% than from the bottom 60%. Every single one of these wealthy private schools could do so much more to admit and to better serve poor and working class students. But it's also undeniably the case that when you look at a metric like tuition dependence, there are schools like Yale or Princeton who have the latitude that they could pretty much send people to school for free.

Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism. Read Dan's interview in The Nation thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com Buy On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich haymarketbooks.org/books/1949-on-shedding-an-obsolete-past