A book read 'round higher ed.EARLIER THIS FALL A NEW BOOK HIT THE higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. scene, and few Admissions offices have stopped buzzing about it since. The Price of Admission (Crown, 2006) alleges that America's richest and most powerful families receive unacceptable access to the country's elite colleges and universities. After Lighting a fuse with the book, author Daniel Golden Daniel Golden is an American journalist, working as Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of the Wall Street Journal. He received the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 2004 for a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal answers a few questions from University Business. How were you able to get administrators to reveal such inside information? Many current and former college and high school administrators provide information to me because they believe that college admissions should be fair and meritocratic mer·i·toc·ra·cy n. pl. mer·i·toc·ra·cies 1. A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement. 2. a. and they're deeply troubled by preferences for children of alumni and donors and other privileged groups In economics, a privileged group is one possible condition for the production of public goods. A privileged group contains at least one individual that benefits more from a public good than its production costs. . What has been the response? Since actions speak louder than words, the greatest tribute my book has received came a week after its publication when Harvard eliminated early admissions. I'd like to think--and have reason to believe--that the timing of that announcement was a response to my book. What would you most like administrators to take from the book? I would like college administrators to realize that it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for them to be more transparent about their admissions process. Colleges often time to stonewall stone·wall v. stone·walled, stone·wall·ing, stone·walls v.intr. 1. Informal a. journalists like me by pretending that they maintain a firewall between fundraising and admissions, or that Legacy preference is only about tradition, not money. For the complete Q&A, visit www.universitybusiness.com/ exclusive.--C.M.F. |
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