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- Depauw is Number 4 in the Nation for Helping Grads Up The Income Ladder (Depauw University, July 20, 2020)
- Should We Reward Colleges for Generating Economic Mobility? (NCAN, July 20, 2020)
- Which Colleges Are Fulfilling The Promise of Intergenerational Mobility? (Forbes – July 15, 2020)
- Imagining a 2020 March Madness Bracket – for Social Mobility. Here Are the Colleges Best at Guiding Students Up the Income Ladder (The 74 – April 3, 2020)
- March Madness is Canceled and The Courts are Silent. But These Basketball Powerhouses Are Still Real Champions in Students’ Lives (The 74 – March 23, 2020)
- New Report Champions Non-Elite ‘Workhorse’ Universities (The College Fix – May 24, 2019)
- 5 Things Parents Should Know About Comprehensive Universities (The 74 – April 22, 2019)
- New Evidence For The Success of Comprehensive Universities (Forbes – April 8, 2019)
- Social Mobility at Comprehensive Public Universities (Inside Higher Ed – April 4, 2019)
- A More Important March Madness: Advancing Low-Income Kids (SeeThruEdu – April 3, 2019)
- If the NCAA Celebrated Social Mobility: Here Are the Colleges That Do The Best Job in Lifting Low-Income Students Up the Economic Ladder (The74, March 27, 2019)
- The $25 Million Parents Spent On Bribes Could Pay For 3,000 Students To Attend Community College (Market Watch – March 16, 2019)
- Employers Increasingly Pushing Students for Master’s Degrees (The Signal – February 20, 2019)
- Commencement Marks Beginning, Not End (Democrat Gazette – May 23,2018)
- Report on Apprenticeships and Community Colleges (Inside Higher Ed – May 18,2018)
- Tuition Price Tag Becoming Hurdle Only Rich Can Scale ( Houston Chronicle – May 18, 2018)
- Stop Universities From Exploiting College Students (Mercury News – April 10, 2018)
- The Best of March: Our 11 Most Popular Articles About Students, Schools & Protests This Month (The 74 – March 29, 2018)
- A New March Madness: Which School is Champion of Advancing Low-Income Kids to Graduate? (SeeThruEdu – March, 22, 2018)
- Thursday Letters: March Madness in the Game of Life (Houston Chronicle – March 21, 2018)
- An NCAA Bracket For Income Mobility: If The Tournament Were About Moving Up The Economic Ladder, These Schools Would Make The Sweet Sixteen (The 74 – March 16, 2018)
- When a $100,000 Grad Degree Is Worth It (US News – January 29, 2018)
- Tax Bill To Have Little Impact (Yale Daily News – January 23, 2018)
- The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s Degree: In Search of the Labor Market Payoff (AEI – January 8, 2018)
- Data on Economic Payoff of Master’s Degrees (Inside Higher Ed – January 8, 2018)
- Where Student Loan Debt is a Real Problem (Washington Post – January 5, 2018)
- Tax Bill Could Hurt Yale Fundraising (Yale Daily News – December 4, 2017)
- New Plan Softer on Grad School (Yale Daily News – November 15, 2017)
- Republican Tax Plan Targets Endowments (Yale Daily News – November 3, 2017)
- Experts Debate Endowment (Yale Daily News – November 1, 2017)
- The Push for College-Endowment Reform (The Atlantic – October 4, 2017)
- Attacks on University Endowments are Misguided (Philanthropy Daily – June 29, 2017)
- Designing Higher Education Risk-Sharing Proposals (Center for American Progress – May 22, 2017)
- Analysis: If March Madness Were About Schools’ Graduates Climbing the Income Ladder, UCLA Would Be Champ (The 74 – April 2, 2017)
- NCAA Bracket (Rep. Tom Reed, Facebook – March 31, 2017)
- Community Colleges Are Not the Minor Leagues Anymore (Forbes, March 21, 2017)
- How Much In Tax Breaks Does Harvard Really Need? (Bacon’s Rebellion – February 27, 2017)
- College Disparity (Houston Chronicle – February 24, 2017)
- Why Should Elite Universities Get More Taxpayer Support Than Regional Public Colleges? (Washington Post – February 23, 2017)
- University Endowments (Bloomberg, January 31, 2017)
- Sharing The Risk – A Plan For Colleges To Participate In The Costs Of Student Loan Failure (Center For American Progress – December 19, 2016)
- Under Scrutiny: What’s Next For The Focus On University Endowments? (Education Dive – December 15, 2016)
- Congress Asks Colleges How Endowments Help Reduce Tuition (Bloomberg – September 13, 2016)
- Congress Digs Into Issue Of Colleges Using Endowments To Lower Students’ Costs (Washington Post – September 13, 2016)
- Is It Time To Tax Harvard’s Endowment? (Slate – September 7, 2016)
- Why Harvard University Raising A Record-Breaking $7 billion Is Bad News For US Education (Quartz – September 5, 2016)
- Universities in D.C. Avoided $111 in Local Taxes Last Year (Washington Post -August 3, 2016)
- University Endowments (Bloomberg – August 2, 2016)
- It’s Time To Debate Colleges’ Endowment Tax Exemption (Chronicle of Philanthropy – July 11, 2016)
- Top Third of US Colleges Hold 52% of Endowment Wealth (Education Dive – July 11, 2016)
- Why Should Rich Universities Get Huge Property Tax Exemptions? (Washington Post – July 8, 2016)
- Texas Data: No Surprise, Most Female Grads Earn Less (American Institutes for Research – June 9, 2016)
- Should For-Profit Colleges Be Able To Benefit From The G.I. Bill? (The New York Times – June 9, 2016)
- New Colorado Website Shows Career Values of College Majors (Denver Business Journal – June 9, 2016)
- The Defense To Repayment Rules: Taxpayers On The Hook Once More (Linked In – April 5, 2016)
- Taxes On College Endowments: Their Time Has Come In Connecticut (CT Viewpoints – April 5, 2016)
- America’s Universities: The Best In The World – But At What Price? (AIR – March 29, 2016)
- Yard Sale: Colleges With Big Endowments Face Calls to Scrap Tuition Payments (The Economist – March 26, 2016)
- Connecticut Lawmakers Seek More Money From Yale (New Haven Register – March 22, 2016)
- Capital News Briefing With State Senator Martin Looney (Connecticut Network – March 22, 2016)
- The Feds and Students Vs. Taxpayers (Wall Street Journal – March 3, 2016)
- Legislation’s Distribution Of Higher-Education Funding Needs To Be Fairer (Courier – February 22, 2016)
- An Inside Look At The Chronicle’s 2015 Annual Study of Endowments (Chronicle of Higher Education, February, 2016)
- UT Has Far More Than Its Fair Share of Taxpayer Funds (My Statesman – February 2, 2016)
- Rich Schools, Poor Students (See Thru EDU – January 25, 2016)
- How For-Profit Education is Now Embedded in Traditional Colleges (Chronicle of Higher Education – January 4, 2016)
- College Endowments are Flourishing Again – And Critics Are Taking Note (Chronicle of Philanthropy, December 1, 2015)
- GOP Targets Harvard-Sized Endowments (Washington Examiner, October 22, 2015)
- Rich Schools, Poor Students: Tapping Large University Endowments (UC Berkeley, September 16, 2015)
- Should Stanford’s Endowment Be Taxed? NPR’s “Forum with Michael Krasny” (KQED Radio, September 14, 2015)
- Yale, Harvard, And Princeton Have Billions In Endowment Money But Still Get A Huge Boost From The Government (Business Insider Australia, September, 10, 2015)
- Malcolm Gladwell Has a Huge Problem With a Government Handout Given to America’s Ivy League (Business Insider, September 9, 2015)
- Let’s Consider Taxing Elite Colleges’ Huge Endowments (Newser, September 8, 2015)
- Should Nonprofit Harvard’s$36B Endowment Be Taxed To Pay For Public Colleges? (Nola, September 8, 2015)
- Is It Time To Tax Harvard’s Endowment? (Slate, September 7, 2015)
- Should College Endowments Be Taxed? (Forbes, August 25, 2015)
- Critics Take Aim (Again) at Rich University Endowments (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 24, 2015)
- In Elite Schools’ Vast Endowment, Malcolm Sees ‘Obscene’ Inequity (NPR, August 22, 2015)
- Malcolm Gladwell Tweet: A Fascinating Look at How Taxpayer Subsidies for Higher Ed Vary By Institution (Twitter – August 20, 2015)
- The Next America: Taking Stock 50 Years of the Higher Education Act (Youtube, National Journal LIVE – beginning at 1:02:18 – June 9, 2015)
- Elite Colleges Have Public Funds For Low-Income Students, So Why Aren’t They Enrolling More Of Them? (Generation Progress – June 8, 2015)
- The Insiders: How Will Clinton Reconcile Her Past With Her Platform? (The Washington Post, June 8, 2015)
- Do Community Colleges Deserve Better Funding? (CBS News – June 4, 2015)
- Addressing The Inequity Gap (Inside Higher Ed – May 28, 2015)
- How Higher Education Funding Shortchanges Community Colleges (The Century Foundation – May 28, 2015)
- Tax Harvard! President Barack Obama Wants to Make College More Affordable. Here’s A Way To Do It (Politico – May 27, 2015)
- Financial Gap Growing In American Higher Ed (Education Dive – May 22, 2015)
- Widening Wealth Gap (Inside Higher Ed – May 21, 2015)
- CEO to CEO (American Association of Community Colleges – May 15, 2015)
- Malcolm Gladwell Keynote Speech at AACC’s Annual Convention About Nexus Report – A “Must Watch” (Youtube, May 15, 2015)
- A Tax Whose Time Has Come (Community College Daily, May 5, 2015)
- How Much Is Spent Per Student? (University Faculty Senate – May 3, 2015)
- The Rich Get Richer In Higher Ed: 40 Colleges Hold Two-Thirds Of The Wealth, And Growing (Washington Post – April 24, 2015)
- Study Proposes Excise Tax on Harvard’s Endowment (The Harvard Crimson – April 22, 2015)
- It’s Time To Target Rich Tax Breaks For Private Colleges (The Sacramento Bee, April 22, 2015)
- Study Examines U.’s Tax-Exempt Status, Proposes Excise Tax on U. Endowment (The Daily Princetonian – April 14, 2015)
- Report: Institutions with the Fewest Low-Income Students Get The Most Taxpayer Support (Higher Education For All, April 7, 2015)
- Tax-Exempt Status of Large College Endowments Hurts Taxpayers, Report Argues (The Chronicle of Higher Education – April 6, 2015)
- NAICU Reporting on Nexus Study (NAICU, April 6, 2015)
- Are Harvard, Yale, And Stanford Really Public Universities? (Washington Post – March 6, 2015)
- Belling The Cat Of Investments In Higher Education (Rethinking Higher Education – March 1, 2015)
