With sophisticated analyses and an often-sardonic delivery, Ms. Wellman has been a pull-no-punches critic of fiscal policies that starve the institutions educating the biggest proportion of students—”public universities are getting screwed, and the community colleges in particular are getting screwed,” she says. She is just as dismissive of the “trophy-building exercises” of public and private institutions that elevate their research profiles by hiring professors who never teach or that dole out merit aid to enhance their admissions pedi­grees. And don’t even get her started on the climbing-wall craze or colleges whose swimming pools “have those fake rivers for people to raft on.”

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by Goldie Blumenstyk, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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