America’s education establishment appears determined to double down on racial discrimination, illiberalism, and rejection of civic responsibility. America’s universities have engaged in prolonged defiance of the Trump administration’s campaigns for American ideals and interests. If the education establishment perseveres in obduracy, we believe that a majority of the American public and policymakers will come to support an external campaign of systematic reform.
National Association of Scholars (NAS) personnel have been listening to ideas that are circulating among those who are frustrated by higher education's efforts to ignore or evade reform. We recognize that some of them would profoundly damage the settled place of higher education in our society. But that doesn’t mean they won't be proposed. If they are proposed, they may well be enacted into administrative regulation and into law.
NAS’s White Paper: Systematic Reform of American Education catalogues 21 of those ideas for systematic reform, which generally have not yet been proposed by the Trump administration. Systematic Reform catalogues possibilities for systematic reform that are considerably beyond the Trump administration’s current agenda. But it catalogues practical possibilities. The higher education establishment risks very rough treatment of colleges and universities by education reformers if it insists on obduracy.
Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, April 14, at 2 pm ET for this higher education webinar event.
This event will feature, David Randall, Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars and Waste Land report co-author; Robert Maranto, 21st Century Chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas; Michael Shires, Vice Chair of Education Opportunity at America First Policy Institute; and Scott Yenor, Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
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