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By taking low-wage, high-impact jobs, wealthy students at top colleges can help the neediest while making room for others to climb the ladder. Image credit: Jasper Langley-Hawthorne Claremont McKenna College is known for many things: sunny SoCal weather, a tight-knit community, the Athenaeum, and a top free speech ranking. But what perhaps best distinguishes CMC, as with most elite US colleges, is its ability to take rich kids and make them even richer. As my reader is likely

Built to serve the community, Henry Kravis’s flagship institute now trains students for the corporate ladder Image credit: Bruce Damonte / Jasper Langley-Hawthorne Henry Kravis ‘67 founded the Kravis Leadership Institute in 1993 to fill a gap he saw in higher education: “There isn’t really a leadership institute in not-for-profit [service].” This past spring, that institute sent its student employees to Las Vegas to shadow a slot machine manufacturer. Between those two dates,

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