As president of Park University, Greg Gunderson worries that students who decide to take a temporary break from their education won’t return. Instead, they may join the ranks of the 36 million Americans with some college, but no degree.

Rather than take a year off from their studies, Park University is encouraging students to take a different kind of gap year—one where they can continue their studies online from the safety of their home and possibly save some money on their education in the process.

As the 2019 college admissions scandal demonstrates, social inequalities and colleges’ pursuit of wealth and prestige often stack the deck in favor of the children of privilege.

Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, discusses how colleges are perpetuating the very inequalities they're to meant to mitigate in this interview.