Donald Trump hates the state of higher education in the US so much that he wants to start a new online university that will dole out bachelor’s degrees free of charge to challenge existing colleges. Trump has also vowed to “deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again”. He wants to dramatically alter the accreditation process that ensures colleges meet set standards, opening the door for programs that currently do not. These are just a few of Trump’s ideas for overhauling colleges and universities – frequent targets of rightwing campaigns that view them as incubators for leftist ideology. Many of Trump’s higher ed proposals involve driving out these perceived ideas.

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by Rachel Leingang, The Guardian.

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