In terms of public support and acceptance, universities have experienced a calamitous decline.
Just 36 percent of Americans polled this month said they had “quite a lot” or” a great deal” of assurance in higher education, which is the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility, according to a Gallup poll conducted.
Most universities have experienced declining donating for two consecutive times.
Most college campuses have no evidence of philosophical variety.
Listeners who hold liberal viewpoints are frequently dissipated or downed, and worse.
The student loan system that is legally guaranteed is in disarray. Half of all college students owe over$ 1.7 trillion in outstanding loans.
Almost a five of the money is currently being returned.
Matrimony, child-rearing, and home equity are all delayed by some 40 million obliged graduates, who can take years to spend money again.
By improperly granting rolling pupil loan provisions, the Biden administration demagogued the issue in order to win votes just before the semester and public votes. Taxpayers, who make up over half of the population who never attended college, would be responsible for paying for that presented debt relief.
The rise in student loan debt is generally a result of administrative bloat, which is roughly in line with higher annual costs for universities than inflation.
Universities are now looking for ways to evade the Supreme Court’s recent decision, which downgrades the use of race and gender to evaluate applications and hiring.
Asian- and white-Americans for decades have been carefully, openly, and presumably with explanation, discriminated against by ignoring or no requiring test scores and dismissing level point averages.
These problems might remain exemplified by Stanford University.
In the 2020 election, 94 % of Stanford university voted for the Biden-Harris seat. Four years later, some 96 % of all Stanford-affiliated funds went to Democrats during the 2024 election season.
Previous Stanford law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of mega-Democratic donor Sam Bankman-Fried, the parents of their criminal boy, apparently heavily involved in either coordinating large-scale left-wing strategy donations or providing legal counsel to their son’s destitute and Ponzi-like business.
In 2023, a federal prosecutor was shouted down at Stanford Law School, his presentation aborted and therefore hijacked– by a Stanford DEI superintendent!
Scott Atlas, a past Trump health consultant and expert on Hoover Institution, received criticism from the Stanford university in 2020.
Yet following events supported Atlas’s insightful caution that a total lockdown of the nation and the shutdown of K-12 schools would not only not fool the COVID epidemic, but may produce far greater financial, social, cultural, and health damage than the virus itself.
Two recent attempts to remove that condemnation failed, in part because some faculty believed it would give rise to Trump’s reelection campaign!
In contrast, Stanford Professor Jeff Hancock, who founded the” Stanford Social Media Lab”, boasts he researches “how people use deception with technology”. Yet when liberal Minnesota officials wanted such “experts” to support their new law banning “deep fake” technology at election time, they called in the expert deception-detector Hancock.
However, it is claimed that Hancock’s citations to support the law were never made.
In fact, the attorneys who argued his online expertise alleged that ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence software was the source of his sources.
Who will police the deception police?
Anti-Israel Stanford students allegedly cheated on students at the university last academic year and yelled profanity at university officials without charge and hounded and obstructing students there for months.
A small group of students occupied and trashed the president’s office, and another vandalized historic campus architecture.
A Stanford lecturer was suspended after the event of October 7 because he targeted Jewish students in his classroom.
According to a recent study by the Stanford faculty on antisemitism,” The most existential issue at Stanford is the emergence of a general atmosphere in which Jewish and Israeli members of the Stanford community are denied dignity and respect based on their Jewish identities, denied treatment and protection offered to other minority groups, and only given equal respect and inclusion if they denounce Israel in various ways and forms.”
Can out-of-control universities reform?
There are a number of difficult-love remedies being proposed by the incoming Trump administration.
They include imposing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants on campuses ‘ adherence to the Bill of Rights, levying taxes on university endowments worth billions of dollars, and removing the federal government from student loan business.
There have recently been some encouraging signs that campus culture recognizes the need for change.
At Stanford, a new president was hired, widely respected for his singular commitment to disinterested education and freedom of expression.
Many campuses are resuming their SAT entrance exams, which are still considered crucial for most universities ‘ applications.
A number of disgraced partisan college presidents have resigned.
So, hope springs eternal, even if it may be too little, too late.
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