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What Exactly Is College For? (Update)
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 00:50:15
Publish Date: 2024-08-15 00:00:00
Description:

We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firms, trying to differentiate their products to win market share and prestige points. In the first episode of a special series originally published in 2022, we ask what our chaotic system gets right — and wrong. (Part 1 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)

 

  • SOURCES:
    • Peter Blair, faculty research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and professor of education at Harvard University.
    • Catharine Hill, former president of Vassar College; trustee at Yale University; and managing director at Ithaka S+R.
    • Morton Schapiro, professor of economics and former president of Northwestern University.
    • Ruth Simmons, former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University.
    • Miguel Urquiola, professor of economics at Columbia University.

 

 
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