The Trump administration must bring higher education to heel
November 23, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump and secretary of education nominee Linda McMahon have an enormous opportunity to reform higher education for the better.
For decades, the higher education establishment has benefited from a firehose of taxpayer dollars through the Federal Student Aid program while imposing a brazenly anti-American political agenda onto generations of college students who are then forced to enter into the workforce with thousands of dollars of debt. At the same time, higher education has also embarked on a cozy relationship with foreign financiers that have given hostile governments a direct line into some of the nation’s most elite and prestigious institutions.
This corrupt status quo has been bolstered by the regulatory agenda of President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Under their watch, the Department of Education imposed radical revisions of Title IX onto college students that forced schools to allow men in women’s bathrooms, attempted a blatant wealth-transfer program through the cancellation of student loans, and discriminately targeted for-profit and Christian colleges with punitive lawfare.
The Trump administration has a mandate and the power to put an end to it all, and when the president-elect takes the oath of office on Jan. 20, the work must begin immediately.
