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4 days ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
It has long been an article of faith among conservatives that the private sector, through competition and market discipline, delivers better, cheaper and more efficient products and services than government can. In the second Trump administration, this neoliberal economic and political philosophy is a lodestar. Project 2025, a blueprint crafted for the administration by the Heritage Foundation, recommends making Medicare’s private insurer-run plans the default option.
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2 weeks ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
On March 25, masked plainclothes federal agents surrounded, seized and handcuffed a Turkish doctoral student named Rumeysa Ozturk near her home outside Boston. Ozturk, who is enrolled at Tufts University on a valid student visa, was bundled into an unmarked car and shipped to an immigration detention center in Louisiana.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
Until recently, most Americans considered college a good investment. But only 22 percent now believe a four-year degree is worth pursuing if it requires taking out loans. Given a choice of five alternatives, ranging from trade school to apprenticeships to military service, large majorities think each is “about the same as or better than a bachelor’s degree in trying to achieve a successful livelihood,” in the words of education reporter Eric Kelderman.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
“Sentence first — verdict afterward.” So cries the Queen of Hearts during the trial of the Knave of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland.”“Stuff and nonsense!” Alice says. “The idea of having the sentence first!”Alice seems to believe in due process. The Trump administration, judging by its decision to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University without a hearing, does not.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
Since he took office, President Trump and his administration have fired thousands of government employees, frozen government spending, eliminated foreign aid and slashed funding for renewable energy. Alas, Trump and his Republican allies may not pay the full political price for their actions because the disastrous effect of many of their deeds will not be felt for some time. Nowhere is this more apparent than in higher education.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
President Trump insists that the Department of Education has been infiltrated by “radicals, zealots, and Marxists” and has promised to abolish it and “return” responsibility for education to the states. Both the 2024 Republican Party platform and Project 2025, which labeled it a “one-stop shop for the woke education cartel,” also demand the department’s closure. Bills have been filed in both the House and Senate to transfer the department’s responsibilities to other government agencies.
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2 months ago | 
aol.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
President Trump insists that the Department of Education has been infiltrated by “radicals, zealots, and Marxists” and has promised to abolish it and “return” responsibility for education to the states. Both the 2024 Republican Party platform and Project 2025, which labeled it a “one-stop shop for the woke education cartel,” also demand the department’s closure. Bills have been filed in both the House and Senate to transfer the department’s responsibilities to other government agencies.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
The conventional advice to people who compose New Year’s resolutions is to make them measurable, realistic and something they want to do. We are not going to heed that advice.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
A few weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College posted a statement on its website supporting Palestinian resistance to “settler colonial war, occupation, and apartheid,” decrying Israel’s “horrific genocidal violence and ethnic cleansing,” and listing various educational resources for students.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Glenn C. Altschuler |David Wippman
Public confidence in higher education has hit its “lowest level ever.” Only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in higher education,” down from 57 percent in 2015. Majorities of Democrats and Republicans believe higher education is heading in the wrong direction. The decline is sharpest among Republicans, with only 31 percent of them thinking colleges and universities have a positive impact on the nation, down from 58 percent in 2010.
