Ivy League

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/7/2023
  

  Is Harvard Actually Discriminating Against Asian Applicants?

  by Julie J. Park

  The data supporting the charge that Harvard's affirmative action policies amount to discrimination against Asian American students isn't as clear-cut as has been reported, says an education researcher who's investigated the policies. Blaming race-based affirmative action conceals the preferences given to legacies, athletes, and donors' children. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  1/10/2022
  

  Federal Lawsuit Charges Ivy League, other Elite Universities with Collusion on Admissions, Tuition

  "According to a lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court late Sunday by law firms representing five former students who attended some of the schools, the universities engaged in price fixing and unfairly limited aid by using a shared methodology to calculate applicants’ financial need."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/28/2021
  

  It’s Time to Break Up the Ivy League Cartel

  by Sam Haselby and Matt Stoller

  Ivy League institutions have an unfair hold on the distribution of opportunity and on the diversity of ideas in America and the world. 

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• SOURCE: BIG by Matt Stoller
  4/25/2021
  

  Break Up the Ivy League Cartel

  by Sam Haselby

  The incredible wealth of Ivy League and other elite universities, combined with their ever-dwindling acceptance rates, suggests that contemporary meritocracy is working to reproduce a tiny economic and political elite at the expense of democracy. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/21/2020
  

  Donald Trump vs. the Ivy League: An Election-Year Battle

  The Trump administration has always engaged in rhetorical attacks on Ivy League institutions as elitist, but critics say launching a civil rights investigation of Princeton represents an effort to weaponize executive branch agencies to fight a culture war. 

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• 9/8/19
  

  The Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Ivy League Problem – and the Party Divide It Signals

  by Daniel K. Williams

  Every Democratic presidential nominee for the past thirty years has had a degree from either Harvard or Yale. 

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• 10-23-13
  

  America's Top Colleges and Universities Have a Hidden Legacy of Slavery [INTERVIEW]

  by David Austin Walsh

  MIT's Craig Wilder on the role slavery played in the founding and rise of the Ivy League.

• SOURCE: AP
  6-21-13
  

  Brown names Neil Safier as new John Carter Brown library head

  PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — Brown University has chosen a University of British Columbia history professor to be the new director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library.Neil Safier will assume his new job at Brown in October. He succeeds Edward Widmer, who last year was named an assistant to the president for special projects....

• SOURCE: The Dartmouth
  5-29-13
  

  James Wright, historian and former Dartmouth president, retires

  Whenever people inquired about his profession, former College President James Wright would tell them he was just a teacher, or a historian. Wright will retire this year after over four decades at the College, both as an administrator and beloved history professor. Wright served as president from 1998 to 2009.When he arrived on campus in the fall of 1969, Dartmouth was an all-male institution with little diversity. Though Dartmouth’s demographics have changed, it still values and encourages strong student-faculty relationships and a commitment to undergraduate teaching, he said.During his time as president, Wright said he was glad he could provide more support for faculty and expand financial aid for students. He grew the size and compensation of Dartmouth’s faculty, developed the College’s capital campaign, the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, and oversaw expansive construction efforts on campus. The Fahey and McLane and McLaughlin residence halls were built and the Alumni Gymnasium was renovated....