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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Reich

Academic freedom is the loser when big donors hound US university presidents

Presidents of prestigious US universities appear at a House of Representatives committee meeting last week.
Presidents of prestigious US universities appear at a House of Representatives committee meeting last week. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters

America’s prestigious universities play a big role in determining who gets into America’s wealthy elite.

A degree from Harvard, Penn or MIT, to take three examples, is a meal ticket to a lucrative job on Wall Street or a corporate law firm and to the richest and most influential people in the land.

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