OPINION (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) VICTOR DAVIS HANSONCONTRIBUTOR December 22, 20229:11 AM ET In a famous exchange in the “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were unsustainable. Their growing manipulation of blanket federal student loan guarantees, and part-time faculty and graduate teaching assistants always was suicidal. Left-wing indoctrination, administrative bloat, obsessions with racial preferences, arcane, jargon-filled research, and
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John Stossel: With current system, ‘Taxpayers lose. Students lose. The winners are bloated colleges’ By John StosselPublished November 10, 2020 Yale University has fancy dining halls. They pay no property tax. Local restaurants struggle to compete, but their tax burden makes that hard. “We basically pay one-third of our rent in taxes!” complains Matt West, manager of Koon Thai Restaurant. “Yale is a money-making machine.”Advertisement – story continues below It is. Many colleges are. Yale has a $31 billion endowment. Harvard’s is $40 billion. My alma mater, Princeton, has $26 billion. Yet, these schools also get government handouts and tax breaks. How government
Read more ... →by Vivtor Davis Hanson – October 22, 2019 6:30 AM In turning out woke and broke graduates, they have a lot to answer for. What do widely diverse crises such as declining demography, increasing indebtedness, Generation Z’s indifference to religion and patriotism, static rates of home ownership, and a national epidemic of ignorance about American history and traditions all have in common? In a word, 21st-century higher education. A pernicious cycle begins even before a student enrolls. A typical college-admission application is loaded with questions to the high-school applicant about gender, equality, and bias rather than about math, language, or
Read more ... →Addressing educrats’ college monopoly next for Trump By Ron Hart Posted Jan 26, 2018 at 12:00 PMUpdated Jan 26, 2018 at 1:29 PM Because it is largely government-funded, higher education has become an overpriced failure full of left-leaning political cronies. Bloated colleges with tenured professors who seek to indoctrinate, rather than educate, diminish our country. Kids leave college under-educated and frustrated, espousing illogical social causes that cause them to be humorless and angry. If being perpetually offended paid, they would be able to pay off their massive student loans. These wrongly educated folks show up to a Confederate statue protest in a Volkswagen, shouting “Resist the Nazi extremists!” —
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