The Chronicle of Higher Education
This Is Higher Education’s Gilded Age
February 04, 2019
Brian Rosenberg, president of Macalester College (MN), writes: In The Chronicle Review, Steven Brint suggests that, despite tales of gloom and doom, we are, in fact, living in higher education’s "golden age." I would revise that assertion. What we are experiencing is not a "golden age" but a "gilded age," one marked by an increasing concentration of wealth and prestige among a small group of elite institutions and a growing disparity between those colleges and the rest of American higher education.