Inequality University

FREDDIE DEBOER Jacobin

Ivy League universities fuel social inequality at the same time public colleges are cut to the bone. They deserve to be dismantled.

Yale University in August 1997. Kent Kanouse / Flickr

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Connecticut, twelve community colleges and four public universities — including one found in the very same city — are starved to death by austerity and neoliberalism, as the Democratic governor and a Democratic state legislature in a rich blue state enact brutal cuts to education, social services, and mental health care, while fighting to cut taxes on corporations. The cuts to the Connecticut State University system are particularly devastating. They risk killing majors, shuttering departments, and destroying tenure.