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How higher ed can deal with ethical questions over its disgraced donors

  • Written by Deni Elliott, Eleanor Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy; Co-Chief Project Officer on the National Ethics Project, University of South Florida
How higher ed can deal with ethical questions over its disgraced donorsUCLA gave $425,000 back to Donald Sterling in 2014 after he disparaged Magic Johnson. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes

Private donors are giving colleges and universities record amounts of money – along with increasingly frequent bouts of public shame when they turn out to have embarrassing baggage.

Revelations that Yale, Columbia, Cornell and...

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