Colleges and universities across the country that have embraced woke culture and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies are terrified that when Trump is sworn in as president, he is going to come down on them like a hammer.
The truth is that higher education in the United States is desperately in need of a major overhaul.
Many students these days seem to believe that engaging in protests is the main reason to go to college, rather than pursuing an education and scholarship.
Free speech has become a rarity on college campuses while radicals supporting the terror group Hamas are free to march and denounce Jews.
Some schools have endowments that are bigger than the GDP of some small countries, yet the cost of tuition, which is already too high, keeps rising.
Trump should take a wrecking ball to higher education.
FOX News reports:
Colleges raking in millions in federal dollars hold their breath as Trump vows to shake up US education
President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory has colleges and universities on high alert after he vowed to take on higher education as part of his plan to overhaul the U.S. education system.
U.S. universities have come under scrutiny in recent months for their lackluster response to antisemitism as protests and encampments overtook campuses nationwide amid the ongoing war in Gaza. Many universities chose to look the other way, prompting a mass exodus by donors who withdrew millions in grants and severed relationships with their alma maters.
The same universities, meanwhile, continued to rake in billions in U.S. taxpayer-backed federal funds. Since 2018, $33 billion of federal contracts and grants have been handed to a handful of elite universities, averaging $6.6 billion annually, an Open the Books study from last year revealed. Some universities even collected more money in federal dollars than they did in tuition payments in a single year, according to an audit done by the government watchdog.
Trump has repeatedly targeted colleges and universities on the campaign trail, pledging to free higher learning in America from the grip of what he called “Marxist Maniacs.”
The higher ed bubble is going to burst at some point, whether Trump takes action or not. He might as well try to enact some reforms while he has a unified Republican government. Schools like Harvard and Yale, once the pride of American education have allowed themselves to devolve into something else.
