Trump’s attack on higher education

Conservatives Seize the Moment to Remake Higher Ed

A Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday emphasized the need for reform in higher education. A Department of Education speaker touched on how Trump is forcing change. WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the Trump administration taking special aim at higher education, conservative policymakers and college leaders are embracing the opportunity to force a cultural reset across academe.

Jennifer Berkshire: What’s Behind the Republican War Against Education: Part 1.

Jennifer Berkshire has been writing insightfully about the rightwing attacks on public schools and on education for many years. S

The Italian Lesson: Why Trump Needs to Break Columbia University › American Greatness

In the age of Trump, Columbia University and American higher education are in crisis. That crisis is a familiar one to Italy. Today, the United […] Source

What Trump has ruined in higher education so far

Four months into the second term of his presidency, Donald Trump has seemingly brought higher education to the center of the media’s attention in a negative way. His administration made several important yet controversial changes in U.S. education policy, marking a shift toward conservative priorities, or “indoctrination,” as I like to call it. With so […]

A Neglected American Classic — Minding The Campus

Until the reelection of President Donald Trump, the conservative intellectual movement has been fighting a rearguard action—justly exposing the negative dynamics of wokeness, “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions—and advocating for a return to the Great Books and liberal education. Given the pending shutdown of the nefarious federal Department of Education, there […] The post A Neglected American Classic appe…

Trump’s attack on higher education

His targets are wrong, but reform is sorely needed