‘Why Stanford Should Clone Itself’ David L. Kirp, a professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, begins an essay last month in The New York Times with the evidence that the status quo is unfair. "A 2017 study showed that at 38 colleges, including five in the Ivy League, more students come from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the bottom 60 percent. These hyper-rich youths are a jaw-dropping 77 times as likely to attend an Ivy League college as those whose parents’ income is in the bottom 20 percent," he writes. He cites public universities that have responded -- in his opinion, appropriately -- to the situation. "Most enterprises where demand far outstrips supply would seize the opportunity to expand," Kirp writes. "A handful of public universities like Arizona State have done precisely that. Last fall, Arizona State enrolled more than 128,000 undergraduate and graduate students at campuses across the state and online. Even as Arizona State has become bigger and more egalitarian -- the number of undergraduates from low-income families has increased nearly 300 percent since 2002 -- it has also gotten better. The percentage of students who earn a bachelor’s degree has climbed to 69 percent, well above the national average."