Universities are experiencing a catastrophic decline in support and support from the public.
A Gallup poll conducted this year found that just 36% of Americans surveyed were “very” or “quite” confident in higher education, once agreed upon as a touchstone to upward mobility. expressed.
Giving to most universities has declined for the second year in a row.
There is zero intellectual diversity on most college campuses.
Speakers with conservative viewpoints are often uninvited or taunted, or worse.
The federally guaranteed student loan program is in shambles. Approximately $1.7 trillion in outstanding loans were owed by half of all college students.
Nearly one-fifth are currently unpaid.
Roughly 40 million graduates are in debt, delaying marriage, parenthood and homeownership, and loans that can take decades to repay.
The Biden administration incited the problem by illegally granting student loan forgiveness in phases to gain votes just before the midterm and general elections. The proposed debt relief would be paid for by taxpayers, more than half of whom have never attended college.
The growth in student loan debt roughly correlates with colleges raising their annual costs above the rate of inflation, largely due to administrative bloat.
The Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of using race and gender in application and hiring decisions, but universities are already looking for ways to circumvent the ruling.
For decades, Asian Americans and white Americans have been systematically and openly, perhaps even justified, by ignoring or not asking for test scores and downplaying grade point averages. I've been discriminated against.
Stanford University may be representative of this crisis.
In the 2020 election, 94% of Stanford faculty voted for the Biden-Harris ticket. Four years later, about 96% of Stanford University-related donations went to Democrats during the 2024 election cycle.
Former Stanford law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Freed, parents of currently incarcerated Democratic megadonor Sam Bankman Freed, received millions of dollars in gifts from their felon son. (receiving) was reportedly deeply involved in bundling and collecting large donations for left-wing political campaigns. Legal advice for my son's bankrupt Ponzi-like business.
In 2023, a federal judge was yelled at at Stanford Law School, lectures were canceled, and then hijacked by Stanford DEI administrators.
Scott Atlas, a former health adviser to President Trump and a Hoover Institution scholar, was criticized by Stanford University professors in 2020.
But subsequent events have shown that a complete national lockdown and K-12 school closures not only fail to slow the coronavirus outbreak, but also have far greater economic and social consequences than the virus itself. It confirmed Atlas' prescient warnings that it would cause cultural and health damage.
Two recent attempts to lift the accusation failed. Part of the reason was that some teachers argued that doing so would help Donald Trump's re-election bid.
By contrast, Stanford University professor Jeff Hancock, who founded the Stanford Social Media Lab, boasts that he studies “how people use technology to deceive.” When liberal officials in Minnesota asked for “experts” to support a new law banning “deepfake” technology in elections, they called on Hancock, an expert in detecting deception.
However, the references Hancock provided to prove his support for the law were said to be non-existent.
Indeed, the lawyers who challenged his online expertise argued that his information sources were clearly invented by artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT.
Who will police the fraud police?
Last year, anti-Israel students at Stanford University violated university rules with impunity, camping out in free speech areas for months, shouting and disturbing passersby.
A small group of students occupied and vandalized the president's office and also vandalized historic buildings on campus.
Starting Oct. 7, a Stanford University lecturer was suspended for naming and targeting Jewish students in his classroom.
The Stanford University Faculty Committee on Anti-Semitism recently stated that “Stanford University's most existential problem is that Jewish and Israeli members of the Stanford community are denied dignity and respect based on their Jewish identity, and that they are denied dignity and respect based on their Jewish identity.'' “This is the emergence of a general atmosphere in which the treatment and protection afforded to them are denied.” Other minority groups were given equal respect and inclusion only if they criticized Israel in various ways and forms. ”
Can an out-of-control university be reformed?
The incoming Trump administration has come up with a variety of harsh love relief measures.
These include awarding hundreds of billions of dollars in federal aid to campuses for their compliance with the Bill of Rights, taxing billions of dollars in endowment income for universities, and reducing federal funding from student loan operations. This includes eliminating the government.
Lately, there have been some hopeful signs that campuses are recognizing the need for change.
Stanford University has a new president widely respected for his extraordinary commitment to disinterested education and freedom of expression.
The SAT entrance exam has been reintroduced on many campuses and is still considered important for most college applications.
Many partisan and elite university presidents resigned in shame.
So, even if it is too little or too late, hope springs eternal.
