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Lisa Gennetian: Costs of College Campus Economic Diversity to Democracy? A View From an Economics Classroom
['Lisa Gennetian', 'Lucy Glynn', 'Claire Cranford', 'Ella Moore', 'Alex Min', 'Evan Poradzisz', 'Dylan Halper']
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Though 12th in economic diversity, Leonhardt also notes that 40% of Duke’s students are students of color and 10% from overseas; this demographic puzzle of low economic diversity yet high racial, ethnic and global diversity is tucked into the context of Duke’s $12 billion endowment (ranked 13th of top 20 universities). This sparks a robust conversation about school quality and who benefits and who does not; students in my classroom who attended private school openly mingle their insights about their views and experiences of school quality with students who attended public school.