Louis J. Freeh, the former FBI director who was commissioned by the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees to investigate recent leadership failures at the University, wrote in his final report, “One of the most challenging of the tasks confronting the Penn State community is transforming the culture that permitted Sandusky’s behavior, as illustrated throughout […]

I recently read a piece advocating legacy preferences in college and university admissions on economic and philanthropic grounds.  I want to offer a different perspective and a different conclusion.  At their core, legacy admissions policies are an ethical issue. It is not uncommon in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors to turn thorny ethical issues […]