The Trump administration must bring higher education to heel

Published November 23, 2024 12:01am ET



President-elect Donald Trump and secretary of education nominee Linda McMahon have an enormous opportunity to reform higher education for the better.

For decades, the higher education establishment has benefited from a firehose of taxpayer dollars through the Federal Student Aid program while imposing a brazenly anti-American political agenda onto generations of college students who are then forced to enter into the workforce with thousands of dollars of debt. At the same time, higher education has also embarked on a cozy relationship with foreign financiers that have given hostile governments a direct line into some of the nation’s most elite and prestigious institutions.

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