Danish historian Mikkel Thorup's latest book skewers philanthropic capitalism. Whether criticizing individual businesspeople, celebrities, corporate-giving programs or sales that benefit a particular constituency or presumed social good, Thorup argues that philanthropy perpetuates inequality by deflecting efforts to distribute wealth and power more equitably.
He's absolutely right, of course. That said, the book is jargon-heavy and dense and would have benefited from concrete examples to illustrate exactly how philanthropies stoke injustice and serve the 1%.

Investors compensate fund managers through an arrangement known as "2 and 20," referring to a 2 percent annual management fee and a 20 percent share of the investment profits, or carried interest.
The arrangement is doubly beneficial, from a tax perspective: Many institutional investors, including universities, are tax-exempt, and fund managers' carried interest is taxed at lower capital gains rates instead of ordinary income rates.

The idea then of transferring knowledge from academia to organisations in a linear and unproblematic way is naive, if not misleading. The pursuit of relevance may undermine traditional academic values such as intellectual autonomy and scientific independence – a price that is arguably not worth paying.

These resources are flowing to institutions whose business model is geared to a bygone era. For the past quarter-century or so, law schools added expensive buildings and faculty to enhance their rankings — believing, correctly, that students would pay ever-increasing tuition for top-rated schools because a JD was the ticket to a high-paying career.

Following the collapse of Corinthian Colleges Inc. this spring, the U.S. Department of Education is crafting new regulations to help students seek debt relief and better hold colleges accountable for wrongdoing.
A final regulation is not expected until November 2016, and the department offered few specifics Wednesday. U.S.

For-profit colleges have collected $8.2 billion from the latest GI Bill since it went into effect in 2009, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of government data. Those colleges enroll only 8% of all U.S. students but 30% of the 1.4 million veterans who have used the most recent version of the GI Bill.
That money for years helped prop up some of the industry's most distressed institutions — including ITT Educational Services Inc. and bankrupt Corinthian Colleges Inc. — which needed the funding to meet tough regulatory requirements.

These public employees often earn more than CEOs of major corporations—on a pay model that values losses as much as wins

Firing a leader is supposed to end a crisis, not make it worse. But when the board of trustees at an Illinois college voted to get rid of the institution's president after word began to get out about extravagant spending and secret insider contracts, it quietly gave him three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of severance pay.

Watching the $200 million iceberg (Mr. Zuckerberg's $100 million donation was contingent on raising a matching amount) slowly melt into an ocean of recrimination over the course of 256 brisk pages can be a sometimes painful exercise.

Anh Trần Thắng, Chủ tịch Viện Văn hóa và Giáo dục Việt Nam tại Mỹ so sánh việc tuyển sinh giữa hai nước dựa trên 3 góc độ: số lượng trường đại học; sự trưởng thành của học sinh trong lựa chọn ngành nghề và khả năng ứng dụng công nghệ thông tin.

Nền tảng tuyển sinh vào trường đại học như kiểu Mỹ là người ta chọn "con người" và Việt Nam là chọn "điểm thi", từ nền tảng này kéo theo cách tuyển sinh khác nhau từ 2 hệ thống giáo dục. Giáo dục Mỹ mang tính thực dụng trong khi giáo dục Việt Nam mang tính thi cử.
Khi chọn "con người" là trường xem năng lực học của học sinh, kết quả thi chỉ số thông minh, thầy cô giáo đánh giá học sinh, học sinh trình bày ý tưởng về ngành học qua bài luận văn, sinh hoạt xã hội. Vì thế hồ sơ vào đại học Mỹ phản ánh rõ nét về "con người" của học sinh.