{"id":181223,"date":"2016-08-24T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/24\/this-explains-why-college-costs-so-much\/"},"modified":"2016-08-24T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:09:00","slug":"this-explains-why-college-costs-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/24\/this-explains-why-college-costs-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"This Explains Why College Costs So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little sample of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/08\/credentialism-and-corruption-vile-college-presidents-edition.html\">corruption and self dealing that is increasingly at the heart of elite colleges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attached link is a series of vignettes, but read the penultimate paragraph, and then read the rest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">So, what we\u2019ve got here is an NYU President handing a New York apartment, meant for faculty, to his son, and what looks rather like powerful faculty members feathering their own nests with cheap housing; we\u2019ve got a Baylor President not wanting to cross a powerful and wealthy football team, even to the extent of failing to handle a rape scandal; and at Penn State we\u2019ve got a President who\u2019s a member of the \u201cinnovation cult,\u201d when it\u2019s not at all clear this will benefit the student body as a whole. Have any of these institutions learned from these experiences? No. Are these college Presidents personally responsible for corruption at their universities \u2014 for converting a public institution to serve private purposes? Sexton and Start, yes. For Barron, the jury is still out.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little sample of the corruption and self dealing that is increasingly at the heart of elite colleges. The attached link is a series of vignettes, but read the penultimate paragraph, and then read the rest: So, what we\u2019ve got here is an NYU President handing a New York apartment, meant for faculty, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,968,969,1002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-education","category-evil","category-good-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}