Are Colleges Wasting Our Money?

Froma Harrop, Providence JournalThat was a pleasant stroll across the Ivy League campus of Brown University, in Providence, R.I. I saw the gardening crews, the maintenance trucks, the pricey restoration work on Faunce Arch. I passed the skating rink, the president's mansion and the new Department of Facilities Management building.As I surveyed the handsome spread (tax-exempt, sadly), I wondered, "Is all this really necessary -- I mean -- for the education of these students?" Receive news alertsSuch subversive thoughts are hardly original. "A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard," Herman...

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