Trump Administration Can Save American Education - Here's How
By Matt Burgess
The Trump administration has a clear mandate to reform higher education. In this guest post on my friend Konstantin Kisin's Substack, I outline what I think they should do.
The administration should use existing federal laws and funding threats to force universities to adopt free expression, institutional neutrality, and hiring on merit and nothing else (i.e. race, gender, politics, etc.). They should not take universities' words for it, since many have flagrantly broken laws for the past decade at least. Instead they should send in federal monitors to audit each campus' practices. The administration should also make big investments in research areas that are missing (e.g. western civ, military history). But they should not violate academic freedom or make across-the-board funding cuts. -
As I have argued elsewhere, the Trump Administration has an opportunity to do a hard reset on America and the rest of the Western world. This is why I asked Matt Burgress to give his take on what the incoming administration can do to fix American education. Matt is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Wyoming. He writes about economi…
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