Conservative historian and scholar, Victor Davis Hanson, believes the time has lastly come for a reckoning in greater schooling.
Schools and universities have all the time leaned left, however in recent times Individuals have watched in horror as academia become a straight-up progressive indoctrination machine. Folks go into debt to ship their youngsters to those faculties which then rework their as soon as glad kids into raging Marxists.
If faculties wish to be that approach, it’s their enterprise but it surely doesn’t should be carried out with taxpayer {dollars}.
Hanson writes at Townhall:
Is the Jig Up for Elite Greater Schooling?
During the last three a long time, elite American universities have engaged in financial, political, social, and cultural practices that had been typically unethical, unlawful — and suicidal.
They did so with impunity.
Apparently, assured directors assumed that the model of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and different elite universities was so valuable to the nation’s elite movers and shakers that they might all the time do virtually something they wished.
By the Nineteen Seventies, non-profit universities had dropped pretenses that they had been apolitical and non-partisan.
As an alternative, they typically violated the corpus of iconic civil rights laws by weighing race, gender, and sexual orientation in biased admissions, hiring, and promotions.
Hanson means that faculty endowments are actually truthful sport:
Congress will quickly cross laws that can tax the annual multimillion-dollar revenue from multibillion-dollar endowments at someplace between 15 and 20%.
There shall be no extra “overhead” or “surcharges” on authorities campus grants allowed bigger than 15%.
These two reforms alone might price a number of the richest campuses almost a half billion {dollars} a yr in misplaced revenue.
Everybody ought to pay shut consideration to what’s occurring with the Trump administration and Columbia College. It’s principally a preview of what’s going to occur at a variety of different faculties. Trump is making it clear that if these faculties refuse to alter, they must study to dwell with out federal funding. That is lengthy overdue.
