In this piece, my Pope Center colleague Jane Shaw writes about what she has learned about the state of higher education in America during the three years she has been focusing mainly on it.
Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate, one of my econ professors was talking about a cruise he’d taken to Puerto Rico and a line I remember particularly well is this: Puerto Rico looks lovely from a distance, but once you get up close that all changes. Higher education is a lot like that. The general image it projects is lovely, but when you get up close you find out that there is much that’s rather ugly.