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May 13, 2008No Growth: Harvard And The Ivy League's REAL Problem?Brad DeLong has a thought-provoking post on this. Having gone to both Hopkins (which grows like Harvard), and UCSD (mentioned as being in a growing U), and now living near UT Austin, which also believes in growth, I think he's right. Society has grown far more drastically than Harvard, and the elite caring about higher ed even faster. This is a real problem, not just for the Ivies, but for society as a whole. Harvard, Yale, Hopkins, etc., should be admitting more like 10s-100s of thousands. It's terrible for Baltimore, for example because its best school, Hopkins, isn't producing anything like the numbers it needs to sustain itself as in a world where smarts, enterprise, and R&D are more and more important to society. Austin IS doing well, because UT's been growing to meet the increasing numbers of smart kids. I'm happy to see that Brad DeLong seems to be somewhat recentrifying. I just rebookmarked him after a gap of six years where he was just too extreme for me to find interesting. Posted by Jon Kay at May 13, 2008 12:23 AMComments
If the old elite schools don't grow fast enough, that pretty much means that new elite schools will arise. But the old elite schools are somewhat meant to serve the old elite, and they're not anxious to boost their numbers. That would be sharing, and we can't have that. Posted by: Tully at May 13, 2008 02:43 PMgosh no.... Posted by: Marcus at May 14, 2008 01:58 PMDOn't worry too much about DeLong staying "recentrified." It's an election year. Posted by: Tully at May 15, 2008 08:23 AM |
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