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The Placement

Elite education as a power system.

A traveler navigates through the O'Hare Airport in Chicago

Travel Has Long Been an Elite Educational Advantage. Public Schools Can Change That.

Access to international travel and experiential learning remains deeply uneven, even as the skills those experiences cultivate become more valuable. Democracy Prep’s Tameka Royal argues that public schools can help close that gap by bringing the wider world within reach of more students.
By Tameka Royal
Sandra Liu

Learning Commons President Sandra Liu Huang on Leading Nonprofit A.I. Push in Schools

After CZI’s restructuring last year, Learning Commons is betting that open A.I. infrastructure can help teachers navigate a flood of classroom tools. Sandra Liu Huang, president of Learning Commons and a former Google and Facebook product executive, is building the connective tissue between A.I., curricula and learning science.
By Sissi Cao
Amazon CEO Andy Jass talks to Matt Mendelsohn, Yale University's Chief Investment Officer, and his wife Lauren Martini as they walk together at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 9, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Harvard’s $2.2B SpaceX Stake Shows How Elite Universities Invest in Tech

Harvard’s $2.2 billion SpaceX stake highlights how top university endowments are increasingly investing in startups and venture capital.
By Jason Collins
woman in a dress shop

How Lilly Pulitzer Outlasted the Preppy Cliché

By Katherine Parker-Magyar
men's preppy style guide

Preppy Style, All Grown Up: The 17 Pieces That Still Work

By Paul Jebara

Higher Education, Finer Dining: Inside the Culinary Scenes at California’s Top College Towns

By Allie Lebos
A collage of wristwatches shows several graduation gift options, including Nomos watches with white, green and pink dials, a black IWC chronograph and a white-dial TAG Heuer Formula 1.

Why University’s End Marks the Start of So Many Watch Collectors’ Journeys

By Caleb Anderson
A giant hand picks a businessman out of a line

A.I. Is Changing What “High Potential” Looks Like

By Vanessa Larco

Where to Learn the Sports Behind the Ivy League Look

By Paul Jebara

Never Mind the Nannies, Drivers are the New Dads

By Richard Kirshenbaum
A collage of book covers about higher education and elite college admissions includes College, Excellent Sheep, The Chosen, The Diversity Bargain, The Price of Admission and The University: An Owner’s Manual.

11 Books That Trace the Contradictions Running Through Elite Higher Education

By The Editors
Jensen Huang delivers the commencement address at Carnegie Mellon University, on May 10, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

As A.I. Majors Grow, Universities Race to Keep Curricula Relevant

By Eric Berger
Princeton graduate and undergraduate students view Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge” at the Princeton University Art Museum during a student preview.

The Biggest Gifts to University Art Museums in 2026

By Elisa Carollo
A smiling woman in a black leather jacket stands with arms folded in the foreground; in the background is a brick building that is part of the NYU campus, specifically, the Gray Art Museum.

Grey Art Museum’s Alison Weaver On the Breadth of the University Museum Mandate

By Dan Duray
A businesswoman's fist slams on a vintage CRT computer monitor in frustration

How A.I. Is Redefining the Computer Science Degree

By Zach Lloyd

A Grown-Up Guide to the Ivy League College Town Weekend

By Paul Jebara
Jensen Huang and his wife Lori Huang attend the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on April 18, 2026.

The Tech Billionaires Funding A.I.’s Next Chapter on Campus

By Beth Duckett
A business man stands at the base of a staircase framed by a keyhole

The Next Career Ladder Is Business Ownership

By Mark Valentino
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Case for the Campus Art Museum in an Age of Cuts

By Dani Lamorte
Vintage souvenir linen postcard published c. 1950 in series titled "Oakland Berkeley and Alameda East Bay Metropolitan Area" depicting a view of the University of California at Berkeley Campus UC Berkeley in the East Bay. The postcard's polished, idealized composition is reflective of the aesthetic institutions have historically used to sell themselves.

Higher Education Doesn’t Need a Better Story. It Needs a More Believable One.

By Alexandra Sollberger
STANFORD, CA - JUNE 16: Apple CEO Tim Cook (C) attends the 128th Stanford University commencement ceremony on June 16, 2019 in Stanford, California.

The CEOs and Billionaire Investors Governing America’s Top Universities

By Rachel Curry
Four artworks of varying sizes and styles hang across a white museum wall between architectural columns under focused gallery lighting.

Anne and Arthur Goldstein Reflect On the Responsibility of the Collector

By Elisa Carollo
An archival image of a young college student walking through campus

The College Value Proposition Is Changing in the Age of A.I.

By Casey Evans
San Francisco philanthropist and art collector Pamela Joyner shows her art at home on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. At left is a sculpture from Kevin Beasley (b.1985) called Aurora, 2018, house dresses, kaftans, t-shirts, du-rags, ri

Why Collectors Gift Significant Artworks to University Art Museums

By Daniel Grant
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