With the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign announcement on Sunday, it’s time to once again ponder, “What does Hillary think about higher ed?”
Clinton graduated from Wellesley College and Yale Law School so you know she’s a stickler for quality.
But her sense of what higher ed needs these days isn’t quite so elitist.
In fact, like everyone, she’s concerned about rising costs for a good education, and a year ago, she sounded a lot more down to earth.
“I worry that we’re closing the doors to higher education in our own country,” Clinton reportedly said at a higher ed conference in suburban Dallas last year. “This great model that we’ve had that’s meant so much to so many is becoming further and further away from too many.”
So is $70,000 a year for New York University a bit much?
But to change the model may mean changing society more than changing our institutions.
