Are Colleges Feeling the Heat? Endowment Tax, International Student Ban from Prestigious Universities & 529 Truths
In this episode of College!, Matt Carpenter and Peg Keough unpack a flurry of hot-button topics shaping the higher ed landscape.
First, they dissect the Wall Street Journal's latest report on elite colleges' response to a proposed tiered federal endowment tax, including an alternative plan from the so-called “Learn Alliance” (think Yale, Stanford, Princeton) to allocate 5% of their multibillion-dollar endowments toward student aid and teaching. Will it stick? And can it help flip the script on exclusivity in admissions?
Next, they react to Trump's controversial effort to ban international…
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