Rise of the Faculty Brats
There is a particular kind of student you meet on elite college campuses: confident, articulate, fluent in the language and rituals of higher education, and unmistakably more at home in the university setting than almost everyone else. They are, you eventually learn, the children of the faculty. On campus they’re called faculty brats. Once, they grew up to be professors themselves. Increasingly, they grow up to run things.
