Colleges spending wisely? Discuss.
Seated at roundtable, American university presidents debate use of endowment funds, rising costs, efficiency
WASHINGTON — In the oak-paneled room on Monday, 25 of the best and brightest minds from all over the country assembled around a large square table and took turns giving their two cents on the topic of the day. They jostled for attention, hands shooting up in the air, when they wanted to make a point. They squirmed and fidgeted when their peers droned on.
It amounted to a veritable discussion section — except one held not in the basement of William L. Harkness Hall but in the gilded, two-story hearing room of the Senate Finance Committee.
Instead of undergraduates, of...
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