--- title: Why Apple Should Buy a University description: Why Apple should spend its billions on re-imagining the university, the problem with 'diversity' and more. canonical: https://time.com/4090555/apple-should-buy-university-2/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-28T16:01:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:07.569Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Apple Should Buy a University og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4090555/apple-should-buy-university-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Apple Should Buy a University twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Apple Should Buy a University by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 28, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 28, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Apple should buy a university — and rebuild it from the ground up.**](http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/10/apple-should-buy-a-university.html) By Alex Tabarrok in Marginal Revolution **2\.** [**Diversity is how we talk about race when we can’t talk about race.**](http://www.salon.com/2015/10/26/diversity%5Fis%5Ffor%5Fwhite%5Fpeople%5Fthe%5Fbig%5Flie%5Fbehind%5Fa%5Fwell%5Fintended%5Fword/) By Ellen Berrey in Salon **3\.** [**Some space junk will fall to earth next month, and scientists can’t wait.**](http://www.esa.int/Our%5FActivities/Operations/Space%5FSituational%5FAwareness/Reentry%5Fdata%5Fwill%5Fhelp%5Fimprove%5Fprediction%5Fmodels) By the European Space Agency **4\.** [**The FDA just approved fighting skin cancer with a virus. And there’s more to come.**](http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-fighting-viruses-win-approval-1.18651) By Heidi Ledford in Nature **5\.** [**The press release is dead.**](https://medium.com/digital-trends-index/the-press-release-is-dead-a4080e7a4b4b#.62vzmy3b6) By Aaron Morrissey in Medium  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4090555/apple-should-buy-university-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4090555/apple-should-buy-university-2/"},"headline":"Why Apple Should Buy a University","datePublished":"2015-10-28T16:01:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:07.569Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4090555/apple-should-buy-university-2/","keywords":["Innovation","Apple","Cancer","Diversity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4090555/apple-should-buy-university-2/","name":"Why Apple Should Buy a University"}}]}] ```