From the Secretary is a weekly blog by Phi Beta Kappa Secretary John Churchill. He writes about issues of importance to the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the advancement of liberal education. For more about Phi Beta Kappa, visit www.pbk.org.
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I just read your “From the Secretary” piece in the Spring 2012 issue of the Key Reporter. It is brilliant. Succinct and insightful, it gets to the critical issue facing higher education today, which is it’s increasing stratification along economic lines. I went to a public university and its professional school and have been on faculty at an Ivy for 30 years. My daughter went to to the same Ivy where I teach and is enrolled at a high profile Ivy professional school. Working and studying with me are many students from the same public university I attended. These varied experiences have reinforced my opinion that higher education is losing its ability to “level the playing field” due to economic pressures beyond its control. It instead is increasingly just one more vehicle to ensure that the economic elite remain in complete control.