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How can colleges recover their civic souls?

College has become a staple of national news and a source of serious bipartisan concern about equity. For example, the Washington Post ran an op-ed last week that illuminated the inequitable share of . The New York Post published a feature on Saturday about the  of the president of Long Island University. To cap off the unmasking of inequities within academia, the New York Post reported on Sunday that the  City University of New York system hired the 鈥減owerhouse鈥 consulting firm McKinsey & Co. for  for two months of work to come up with a fall reopening plan. Democratic New York state Sen. John Liu from Queens, New York City鈥檚 most middle-class borough, asked: 鈥淗igh-priced consultants on a plan for which there are already enough highly paid CUNY officials, while students continue to suffer from a shortage of full-time professional faculty?鈥 This is about equity, pure and simple.

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