…except that he has no input on anything other than how Yale invests its money, and isn’t doing anything hugely important to school culture like, say, deciding who gets in.
UChicago taking on debt was a result of the current administration. It isn’t a problem the current administration was brought in to fix. Zimmer deliberately took out a mountain of debt to fund a spending spree during the recession because interest rates were so low. It was part of his institutional plan. Pretending they have to change the culture to fix UChicago’s perennial problem of debt is disingenuous, the people trying to change the culture created the problem in the first place.