10/12/2025
"Critics have argued that it is not the place of the federal government to solve these problems. But without government involvement, reform will be difficult. Many colleges and universities, and especially some of the oldest and traditionally prestigious schools, are burdened with archaic governance structures that make self-reform all but impossible. This means that course correction must come from the outside.
Given the enormous investment of taxpayer money, it is appropriate that the federal government be involved. The government should not be using public funds — tens of billions of dollars annually in research funding, to say nothing of student aid — to prop up a system that purports to educate American students and serve the public good but is all too often doing nothing of the sort."
OPINION President Donald Trump recently offered nine universities a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” that offers preferential treatment for federal funding if they enact several…
