Brown didn't even have a medical school until the early 70s. The School of Public Health was only founded very, very recently in the last couple of decades. Brown has aggressively been buying up properties and redeveloping them with the hope to profit from some of the work being done there. This is just one example of how extremely wealthy schools can be enabled by endowment money.
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.
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