President Biden is traveling to India for a meeting of the Group of 20. Ukrainian troops say cluster munitions, banned by most countries because of human rights concerns, are helping them fight Russian forces. People on three continents are fighting for control of the lucrative empire left behind after the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former mercenary chief. Whose fault is that?Ĭolleges with declining male enrollment have decided to admit more men at the expense of women’s enrollment. The magazine’s education issue also profiles Ben Sasse, who was once a Republican star in Washington and now runs the flagship university in Florida, a state where education has become a battleground.Īmericans are losing faith in the value of college.
I heard a consistent message from lower-income Duke students: It’s a special college that is transforming their lives, but they wish there were more students like them on campus. In The Times Magazine, I profiled Duke - which has recently been the country’s least economically diverse elite college (as the first chart in this newsletter indicates). Our table showing 286 colleges, created by my colleague Ashley Wu, is here. In almost all cases, a college’s Pell share is an accurate reflection of its commitment to economic diversity.
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Any college that believes it’s doing so is free to release data showing the full income distribution of its students. Nonetheless, other data - from both academic research and the federal government - suggests that most colleges with a low Pell share are not in fact enrolling large numbers of students just above the cutoff. It can’t distinguish between a student with a household income of, say, $100,000 and one with $1,000,000 because neither is likely to receive a Pell Grant. Some administrators also said - correctly - that Pell was not a comprehensive measure of diversity. Here is a selection of 20 prominent colleges: These colleges - with the largest endowments and lowest admissions rates - still enroll a disproportionate share of very affluent students, but they also enroll more low- and middle-income students than in the past. Most elite colleges have become more diverse over the past decade. The colleges are choosing not to prioritize upward mobility. They are bypassing qualified students - more qualified, sometimes - from humbler backgrounds. It means that colleges enrolling mostly affluent students are making a choice. Ron Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins, another college that has become more diverse over the past decade, said the same thing about such students: “They are there, and they do come.” “There were plenty of low-income kids with high scores that we hadn’t been admitting,” Holden Thorp, the provost at the time, told me. As they did, they heard a concern from the board of trustees: Would Washington University need to lower its academic standards to enroll more middle-class and poor students? After administrators studied the data, they concluded that the answer was no. Only about 6 percent of its students received Pell Grants, federal scholarships that typically go to students in the bottom half of the income distribution.īut some university leaders were uncomfortable with the situation and began pushing for change. Louis was the least economically diverse college in the country. ‘They are there’Ī decade ago, Washington University in St. Today’s newsletter offers highlights from the project and links if you want to go deeper.
Our goal is to help readers understand which colleges were already enrolling economically diverse classes before the Supreme Court decision - and therefore can serve as a model for others.
It’s an updated version of a project The Times last published in 2017.
This morning, we’re publishing a measure we call the College Access Index. Given this background, my colleagues at The Times Magazine and I decided to shine a light on economic diversity at nearly 300 of the country’s most selective colleges, public and private. Many critics of the old affirmative action argue that economic factors are a better measure of disadvantage anyway: These critics argue that lower-income applicants of all races should be given credit for what they’ve overcome. Many supporters of the old affirmative action see economic diversity as a way to continue creating racially diverse college classes, given the large racial gaps that exist in income and wealth. The Supreme Court decision banning race-based affirmative action has thrust economic diversity to the center of the debate over college admissions.
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