In 2012, several Texas public universities developed degree programs costing approximately $10,000 each. These initiatives may well reverberate nationally as the first shots fired in an academic “revolution of rising expectations.””
Yale Finally Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Yale’s Committee on “Trust in Higher Education” just released what higher-education reformers have to view as a remarkable document. It addresses the ongoing erosion of public trust in America’s universities. In doing so, it owns up to the self-censorship, extreme faculty political homogeneity, grade hyperinflation, administrative bloat, and the opaqueness of “holistic” admissions. For an...