What makes a "good college" – and why it matters
Ask 100 people which college they’d dream of attending and you’ll probably hear the same answers over and over again: Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford. We say we want equity in higher education, yet we obsess over a small number of colleges that most of us will never get into. In this thought-provoking talk, Cecilia M. Orphan discusses the problem with prestige in higher education and asks us to redefine a "good university” as one that makes an excellent education available to everyone – as Regional Public Universities do.