Comment on "Higher Education in the United States: Laissez‐Faire, Differentiation, and Research".

A distinctive, and I would say nearly unique, feature of the American higher education complex is the relatively large size of the private sector and the fact that it operates alongside and competes with a similarly large set of public sector institutions. In most countries, the public sector dominates, and even what is sometimes called the private sector has a much larger element of public sector funding. Keywords: I23; I24; I28 EN I23 I24 I28 217 219 3 07/06/23 20230701 NES 230701 I have served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard and as dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. [Extracted from the article]