Higher Ed’s Prickliest Pundit

Scott Galloway is suddenly everywhere, slaying academe’s sacred cows

"Scott Galloway believes higher education is overdue for a reckoning. Sky-high tuition leaves too many students drowning in debt. Tenure guarantees lifetime appointments to subpar professors. Elite colleges hoard their vast endowments and brag about how many applicants they reject, while kids from humble backgrounds are left behind 'in a civilization that is now more Hunger Games than civil.'

[...] I think a lot of us in the academic world are starting to feel like we've lost the script. But when it's raining money, when it's about your own compensation -- you know, we're all human."

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Tom Bartlett is a senior writer who covers science and other things.