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.””
Higher Education
Don’t Shrink the Core. Fix It.
Just how bad is American higher education today? Consider this observation on today’s college students from Jessica Wilson, a professor of great books and humanities at Pepperdine: “It’s not even an inability to critically think. It’s an inability to read sentences.” She is not alone. Professors at elite colleges report that many incoming students arrive...
July 31, 2026