Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President

(Photo courtesy of Lawrence H. Summers)
Larry Summers reveals why universities should ban legacy admissions, scrap elite sports, and make a first-rate education more available to all.
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Last week I found myself in Sun Valley, Idaho, at a conference with a lot of big wigs. Among them was Larry Summers—an economist, the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and a former president of Harvard University. The timing was fortuitous.
Last month, Harvard went before the Supreme Court to defend its race-based admission policies. The scho…
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