Source: Eric Johnson, NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/3/20


The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently hosted a panel of scholars and pundits to figure out what’s wrong with the way college students are selected and what they choose to do with their lives. The concern is that our young people go off to four years of fancy schooling and emerge with no sense of obligation to their home communities. They collect a diploma and move to the big city. “The current way of running college admissions concentrates talent, ambition, and competence in very few areas,” said Anastasia Berg, a philosopher at Oxford. “It drains potential leaders in local communities.”

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