Letter from Chip Northrup
What Yale Study Isn’t Telling You
Yale University, from whence such local luminaries as Rhyming Waldo Johnston and Helpful Harry Levine came, has just finished a comprehensive analysis of how colleges are in part to blame for the current crisis in higher education (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/yale-report-colleges-unversities-trust.html?smid=em-share). What the report evidently did not address was one fundamental flaw in the business model of large universities.
Studies have shown that, on average, the most productive college educations come from smaller schools—with better teacher/pupil ratios—such as our local Hartwick College, Hamilton College and Colgate University.
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