Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions

Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions
The Northwestern Wildcats logo on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., on April 9, 2025. Vincent Alban/Reuters
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Here’s a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit “educational” entity.

Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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