As Congress, Trump Foment a Reckoning at Hyper-Partisan Elite Campuses, Is the Jig Up for Higher Education?

Universities face the challenge of returning to the original mission of offering rigorous, meritocratic, and disinterested education, guaranteeing constitutional protections for all on campus, and slashing their vast administrative bloat.

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Protesters in front of Woolsey Hall on the campus of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 22, 2024. Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP

Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal — and suicidal.

They did so with impunity.

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