{"id":6487,"date":"2017-11-20T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2017-11-20T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:44:35","slug":"will-private-schools-pay-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2017\/11\/20\/will-private-schools-pay-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Private Schools Pay Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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College education is a core part of social mobility in the United States, but it is also increasingly controversial. Amid <\/span>polarizing views on trust<\/span><\/a> in colleges and universities and a <\/span>proposed plan to tax graduate students’ tuition waivers<\/span><\/a>, Americans are facing big questions about the role of higher education in our society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, there’s a new twist. In an <\/span>op-ed column for <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/a>, UC Merced sociologist <\/span>Charlie Eaton<\/span><\/a> looks at how some private schools are tied up in <\/span>the Paradise Papers expos\u00e9<\/span><\/a>. Eaton writes,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an increasingly bipartisan view that elite private colleges are islands of wealth. And there\u2019s good reason for that: It\u2019s true … the Paradise Papers revealed that dozens of wealthy college endowments use Caribbean islands as offshore tax havens for their investments.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eaton argues that this revelation is in line with a long term trend toward inequality in higher education, where some schools show a broad commitment to educating a wide range of people, while others stockpile their resources to serve a small student body. Elite private schools often enroll a limited number of students, drawing a large proportion from “the 1 percent.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem with enormous endowment growth is that private institutions have not used the resource boom to provide greater benefits to the public … America\u2019s top public universities, on the other hand, have substantially increased their enrollments since the 1970s despite shrinking state funding. They also tend to enroll low-income students at much higher rates.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a time where more people are skeptical of colleges and universities, scandals like this pose a central question for the future of higher education: can private schools provide a leg up, or will they have to find another way to pay out?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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