Sharks

These are sharks, migrated to freshwater—non-native, invasive species having sensed vulnerable prey in a new environment, hunting in packs, at schools.

It’s a replicable model for grift with pay-to-play, expanding rapidly and seeking new franchisees and investors.

They’re operating in your blind spot, disappearing in semantic nuance. This is not a higher ed story. It’s a story about greed and corruption and politics. Higher education is simply the setting.

What is a multi-billion-dollar endowment, surrounded by preoccupied, fearful faculty, a dependent local workforce and economy, and young students just starting to figure out how to exist?

Lunch.

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