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TRINITY. "I don't see anything wrong with academic elitism at all," says Ronald Calgaard, president of Trinity University in San Antonio. Five years ago, it was just another pretty good liberal arts school with 3,269 students and a $127.5 million endowment. Then Calgaard, who had arrived two years earlier from the University of Kansas, got going to make Trinity "the Amherst of the Southwest." He pushed the endowment close to $200 million and made no secret of what he would do with it. "We buy faculty," he says...
...Scholars with $5,000 annual aid packages and spent an average of $1,000 each in recruiting other students. Since 1981, average SAT scores have risen from 1095 to 1200, and the student body has been cut to 2,759. "Colleges should expect a higher quality of work," says Calgaard, "and if they don't get it they simply shouldn't pass the student...
Meanwhile, full professors' salaries jumped from an average of $31,723 to $45,693, enabling the philosophy department to hire away professors from Harvard, Princeton and Yale--"pretty good pedigrees," observes Chairman Peter French. Calgaard claims that Trinity's excellence runs across the board, and notes that, thanks to the endowment, Trinity will charge a relatively modest $6,960 for the coming school year. As a result, he says, Trinity can strive for "elitism that is academic rather than socioeconomic...
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