Is There a Caste System in American Higher Education?
“Do we all want more low-income students? Sure, but we would go into financial ruin,’’ Pérez recently told Jon Marcus of The Hechinger Report, crystallizing a key reason why college campuses like Trinity too often are largely the purview only of those who can afford them—and why Hechinger Report’s recent Divided We Learn project found that poor and minority students are drastically and increasingly underrepresented in key areas of higher education.
