Tuition keeps climbing, students keep borrowing... and the folks at the top chase their counterparts in the for-profit arena and on Wall Street

What college presidents at private universities are paid (note, I do not say"what they earn"):

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Private-College/129979/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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And so in higher education, as everywhere else in America, the gap between the top one percent and rest widens:

http://chronicle.com/article/On-Campuses-the-Income-Gap/129980/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Once upon a time, when I left private practice to return to the academy, I harbored the illusion that higher education was exceptional. And maybe back then, it was.