In our last couple episodes, we looked at fraud in academic publishing, fraud by researchers

themselves, by some journals that aren't what they seem and universities who hush-hush

their investigations of misconduct. When you add it all up it's a scandal. Today

we're talking about another scandal in higher ed.

No, it's not the fact that more and more Americans have decided that college just isn't worth the trouble.

We already covered that in a four-part series called Freconomics

radio goes back to school. We're also not talking today about the exorbitant

cost of college. We covered that too. Today we are talking about the fact that right now

seems to be an absolutely terrible time to be a college president. If you've been keeping up with the news you already

know this. University of Pennsylvania president Liz McGill has resigned.

As follows McGill's controversial testimony on Capitol Hill earlier this week.

The president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, resigned. testimony on Capitol Hill earlier this week.

The President of Harvard,

Claudine Gay, resigned today following accusations of plagiarism

and the university's alleged mishandling

of anti-Semitism on campus.

And just like that, two Ivy League presidents gone. You probably also know about that controversial testimony on Capitol Hill.

The part that got everyone's attention was a line of

questioning put forth by Elise Stefanek, a Republican Congresswoman from upstate

New York, a Harvard graduate herself, who has been mentioned lately as a possible running mate for Donald

Trump. This was at a hearing called holding campus leaders accountable and confronting

anti-Semitism. It was held in response to some of the

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