Educational Excellence, Without Ivy

摘要

As Business Week's Dec. 10 article on "The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivy League" demonstrated, a sizable resource differential is developing between America's public and private research universities. But this worrisome-and growing-funding gap cannot be solved along the lines proposed in the story by Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust. President Faust suggests that lesser-endowed universities should back off from "ambitious" scientific research and focus instead on social science and the humanities.