Great column by Frederick Hess: “Big Higher Ed’s leaders don’t really grasp that they’re seen as self-interested, dishonest, and out-of-touch. Nor do they see the extent to which bribery-based admissions, college costs, and student loan debt have eroded support on the left. They don’t appreciate how much the tales of woe used to promote Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” fed the conviction...
The ungated version is here. Intro: “Universities are protesting the Trump administration’s plan to limit the overhead, also known as indirect costs, covered by federal research grants. They argue this change violates a long-standing post-World War II agreement, rooted in Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report “Science, The Endless Frontier.” That agreement was simple: The federal government would...