Over the past 30 years, Elite American University has engaged in economic, political, social and cultural practices that are often unethical, illegal, and committed suicide.
They did so with immunity.
Apparently, confident administrators assumed that brands from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and other elite universities are invaluable to the country’s elite movers and shakers, so they could always do almost anything.
Cambridge, MA – June 29: Walking through the gates of Harvard Yard on Harvard University Campus on June 29, 2023 in Cambridge, MA. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the race-conscious admissions policies used by Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the constitution and put an end to positive actions in higher education. (Photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
By the 1970s, nonprofit universities had dropped the pretend they were nonpolitical and nonpartisan.
Instead, they customarily violated the symbolic civil rights corpus by weighing race, gender and sexual orientation in biased enrollment, employment and promotion.
Graduation ceremonies became racially and ethnically isolated. The same was true for dormitories and “theme houses.” (Related: Victor Davis Hanson: Who caused the counterrevolution?)
In the spirit of Jim Crow South, the so-called “safe spaces” are reserved areas of campus only for a particular race.
Wealthy foreign students often protested openly on behalf of designated terrorist groups like Hamas.
Freedom of speech protected by the First Ordinance has disappeared on elite campuses. Abortion, Middle Eastern orthodoxy, biological men who dominate women’s sports, or the dogma of diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI) is likely to scream, or sometimes ravaged guest speakers, dare
University administrators were quietly approved when they ignored the violence committed in the Bill of Rights or were lax when violent students were laxed with conservatives assuming.
However, in their hub arrogance, the university began a series of flaws.
They began gouging government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation by obtaining 30-60% of individual campus grants as “overhead.”
But they usually charged a much more modest 15% extra fee, most private foundations.
They pushed for a significant expansion of the student loan program, which has reached $1.7 trillion in a portfolio of federal guaranteed loans. However, when the federal government guarantees student loans against defaults, universities have begun to increase fees and tuition far more than annual rates.
Elite universities have shortened the time they had to offer students the gold standard of general education curriculum of Western citizenship, history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and science, to the point that they began distorting their curriculum with Dei Gut courses, radical green agendas and postmodern theories of race and gender.
Soon, employers began to realize that new treatment courses were also married to race and sex-based admissions. (Victor Davis Hanson: Myths about Musk)
SAT and ACT were dropped for a while. This was the same with the average comparison ranking of high school students.
Soon, there was no guarantee that symbolic degrees would be able to be written and spoken well, think analytically, or calculate properly.
Employers often began to prefer graduates from state schools where DEIs were muted, admissions were competitive, and teaching remained strict and non-ideological.
Finally, since October 7, 2023, the spread of anti-Semitism on campus has become unreasonable, obvious and violent.
Thousands of Middle Eastern guest students bravely cheered on Hamas terrorists.
The orthodox campus Marxism in which Jews and Israel “sacrifice white people,” and the Palestinians were noble “non-white victims,” ​​ensuring that Jewish students were chased and physically attacked on campus.
Disgusted public surveillance was an invertebrate manager who either greenlights anti-Semitist violence or denies it to dic.
So there should have been a public calculation. And now it has arrived.
Congress will soon pass a law that taxes billions of dollars of annual income from millions of dollars to millions of dollars of annual income somewhere between 15-20%.
Government campus grants do not have more than 15% “overhead” or “additional charges.”
These two reforms alone could cost some of the richest campuses, nearly $5 billion a year in revenue losses.
Racially offensive DEI programs disqualify schools from federal support.
Foreign student guests who break US laws or violate university rules will be able to pull their visas and show them the door to return home.
Campus must comply with the first, fourth, fifth and sixth amendments of the Bill of Rights.
All of these remedies enjoy a wide range of public support.
For the first time ever, the majority of Americans disapprove of current higher education. Only 10% of Americans believe an Ivy League degree will lead to better American workers.
In a country with poor fertility, fewer young people choosing to go to college, and the federal government has $36 trillion in debt, universities have little leverage.
They can return to their original mission of providing strict, meritocratic and indifferent education, ensuring constitutional protections for everyone on campus and reducing the enormous administrative bloat.
Or, if not, they can continue freely, ensuring only further mediocrity, public disgust, and ultimately irrelevant.
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About the author
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(Victor Davis Hanson is a well-known fellow at the Center for Greatness in America. He is a classicist and historian at the Stanford University Hoover Institute and is the author of World War II: How the First Global Conflict Fighted and Winned.
