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Money.

• nonrandomstring 5y ago
  > Money. Well no. In this case the universal answer fails. > Yale Provost Ben Polak told the Washington Post, "At no point in the expansion did we think we'd do it to raise money for the university. This is about access." That's Yale. But the the article properly deals with the simple tradeoff between "access" and quality at Columbia. It's a bad deal. Nobody benefits. > President Bollinger in an interview says, "We have to have growth as the institution evolves." No we do not! This a bare, unqualified, ideologically rooted and - in the current milieu - frankly insane statement. Give me a single good reason why, when all factors considered growth leads to poorer student and staff experiences, we "have to have" it?
  • voidfunc 5y ago
    Growth increases alumni network. Bigger alumni network increases chance you have more big fish who donate more. It's all money regardless of what they say.