Brandeis University

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology last Wednesday announced that tuition will be free for all undergraduate students from families with annual incomes less than $200,000.

When you visit the campus of Brandeis University these days, you feel the tension among current students when discussing the school’s basketball programs.

Kyra Tyler used to work as an admissions official at Brandeis University, a private college in Waltham with a long social justice streak, advocating behind closed doors for underrepresented students of color. After all, she had been hired in the early 2000s specifically to recruit them.