Trump’s New Higher Education Plan Could Change College FOREVER (for the better!)

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The Trump administration, super excellent, love it. Love it what they’re doing here. They’re calling it the compact for academic excellence in higher education. It was just leaked. I like it a lot. Now we all know what has happened to colleges and universities over the past, let’s say, I’d say generation or two.

30 years plus slowly but surely getting worse instead of better when it comes to intellectual conformity. Yeah, basically you’re all a bunch of leftists. Pretty much, pretty much what has happened. again, the Trump administration is using federal dollars.

lack thereof being able to take them away to force schools to follow law not so much follow law but do a better job. Now the leftists out there are going to yell and they’re going to scream and they’re going to say Trump is doing he’s breaking this is can’t do this this is unprecedented. Wrong.

The Obama and Biden administrations from the Journal Today used federal funds to coerce schools to follow their cultural agenda on race, gender, and handling sexual harassment allegations. The latter railroaded the innocent. The main difference between the Biden and Trump efforts is that Biden officials were pushing an open campus door with school officials who agreed with them.

Trump officials want to change a culture that is hostile to American principles. Now, basically this, again, they call it the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, offers schools preferential funding if they follow certain rules. Schools that agree to meet the Trump benchmarks would be eligible for multiple positive benefits. I don’t know what they are.

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but multiple positive benefits and substantial and meaningful federal grants. Now, some of the rules here. Universities in the compact must end the use of race or gender preferences in hiring or admission on campus. Yeah, that’s the law actually. They’re supposed to do that anyway.

embracing so-called institutional neutrality so schools don’t take sides in social and political issues unrelated to the university. Professors can opine in their private capacity, but the history department can’t dictate a certain view of, let’s say, the Arab-Israel conflict. The memo.

encourages, again, this is what we should want, a vibrant marketplace of ideas. Again, you can’t beat that drum over and over and over again. That would be fantastic. Many schools are making efforts to address progressive monoculture, including some of the far left leaning faculty rosters. University of Texas created a school of civic leadership.

Vanderbilt, they’ve hosted events to emphasize return to free speech principles. Trump, they backed off in regards to dictating the faculty hiring. They’re gonna allow that to schools, but I’m sure they’re gonna keep an eye on this. One of the things that they put in there, I don’t know how they could push this. They want schools to freeze tuition for the next five years.

I also want to cap the enrollment of international students at 15%. Again, I don’t know where that number comes from. Again, you’re talking about kids that pay full freight. And again, let’s understand that colleges and universities are, like I said, they’re hedge funds, they’re businesses. They’re businesses and they’re trying to make as much money as possible. Yeah, they got nonprofit status, but they’re businesses. Freezing tuition. Well.

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Again, I’ve explained this before when it comes to college education. We talked about subsidies last week on the program. Anytime you subsidize anything, the price is gonna go up. You want the price of colleges and universities to come down. That’s it. Closing down, no more student loans. No more student loans. And you know what you do as well? The private sector will fill that void. Okay, sure. But guess what?

Kid takes out a student loan, he can discharge it in bankruptcy. See how eager banks are gonna be to make student loans. Nobody’s gonna be able to afford to go to school. No, bullshit. Okay, sorry, sorry. Listen, okay, I just did not too long ago, a couple years ago, past few years, college tours of my kids, recruiting trips here, there and everywhere.

I’ve seen some of these dorms and some of these schools, they’re like damn Westons for crying out loud. All right? You can make some cutbacks here and there. I got an idea. Why not get rid of all of the useless administrators that you have that serve no purpose? Yeah, you find ways to bring your costs down. Again, let them price their product, because again, they’re a business based upon what people can afford to pay.

But I definitely think a step in the right direction as far as reform is concerned. Wouldn’t it be nice? Nice where, know, if you’re a conservative on campus, you’re not gonna get shouted down within a classroom and people will say, hey, geez, we’re gonna listen to your ideas, have a conversation. Again, discourse, getting people to talk to one another.

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