Rufo is the conservative activist who designed the administration’s attack on the “money, power, and status” enjoyed by Columbia, Harvard, and other top-ranked universities. He wants to cut the number of students at four-year colleges in half. It’s not clear if the administration will go that far — they may be satisfied by winning headlines at the expense of the Ivy League. But the government has more ambitious goals than its enumerated demands. That’s why, despite conceding to federal demands, Columbia has not gotten its funding back. The more universities concede, the more the administration will demand. The conservative critique of higher education is exaggerated and distorted, and these kinds of purported solutions are dangerous.

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by James Kvaal, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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