The University Crisis.

Still, despite the excision of free community college from the Biden administration's stalled Build Back Better bill, the next iteration of the proposed legislation still seems likely to increase the purchasing power of Pell Grants and include funds for programs aimed to improve college retention and completion rates, as well as for infrastructure and financial aid at historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, and Latinx-serving institutions. BOOKS & the ARTS IN JANUARY 2020, JUST DAYS BEFORE THE first case of Covid-19 was identified in the a scholar United at States, Georgetown Bryan Alexander, University known as a "futurist", published a new book, Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. In Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity - published five years ago - Charles Clotfelter documented this "re-sorting of customers" upward and downward: At elite private colleges, the average family income of students has "surged ahead of the national mean", while students attending colleges with fewer resources lag ever farther behind. Name-brand colleges are cashing in on the college admissions frenzy by offering high-priced summer "immersion" programs to affluent high school students seeking advantage in the scramble. [Extracted from the article]