Tag: inequality
New Wealth Inequality Research Center to Launch at the University of...
The University of Michigan (UM) recently received a $4 million donation from the Stone Foundation to create a center dedicated to studying and finding...
Challenging Legacy Admissions
The role America’s top universities play in perpetuating socioeconomic and racial inequality
The practice of giving admissions preference to legacy students, or children of alumni, is...
Civil and Human Rights Groups Express Concern Over Trump’s Pick for...
Reacting to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of GOP donor and school choice activist Betsy DeVos as the U.S. secretary of education, 33 civil and...
The Future of Sustainability Leadership Rests with Higher Education
In the 1960s and ’70s, when the environmental movement was growing increasingly mainstream, activists focused on effecting change through legislative action, lobbying, education, and...
Princeton Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
The Nobel Prize committee Monday announced that Angus Deaton, a Princeton University professor and one of the world’s leading experts on poverty, has been...