[DannyTN]

Interesting article. Kudos to the author for trying not only to identify the issues with higher education but to also recommend changes. Here's what I see the author is recommending:

1. To change the culture, threaten the tax exempt status of colleges that try to silence conservative voices and violate their free speech rights.
   • That only addresses the freedom of speech and association aspects.
   • Removing liberal bias in certain programs where they weed out all but liberal students needs to be addressed.
   • And the liberal bent of professorship also needs to be addressed. Perhaps some discrimination suits could be brought.
2. To lower cost, reduce federally required record keeping. And increase competition from online and for-profit educational models. End student loan programs so that costs will fall back to what familes can actually afford to pay.
   • Hard to believe there is that much federal record keeping in colleges, but if so, reducing it is a no brainer.
   • Not sure what the Trump administration is supposed to do to increase competition from online and for-profit, but I suppose making the same funds available to those programs would help.
   • Not convinced that stopping the student loan programs would reduce the cost of education. That could be short sighted, and result in a less educated population. I was glad for student loans when I went to college. But I think loans should be tied to the employment prospects of individual curriculums. We don't need to fund degrees in stained glass art when the jobs aren't there.
3. Increase credibility. Bring jobs back and tie those jobs to earning a college degree.
   • Trump will bring jobs back, but why should it be on him to tie jobs to earning a degree? That doesn't make sense. The job either needs a degree or doesn't. That should be left up to the hiring company. In general, more jobs means more demand for degrees.
   • Again, I think reducing funding for degrees that aren't in demand will go far to increasing credibility. But keep in mind that demand for degrees has been suppressed, because of the stupid trade and economic policies. Fix those and demand will go up, so don't go overboard based on past demand.

[Salgak]

You seem to assume that lack of student loans will result in a “lack of education”.

I would argue that the sheer ubiquity of student loans has caused a blossoming of paid coursework, but that is not equal to actually educating people, and based on observation, having the opposite effect. . .