Posted on 05/24/2016 8:17:22 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Who knew that the Trump campaign would be getting involved in higher education policy this year? Sam Clovis, a tenured economics professor and Trump campaign co-chair, recently noted that their objectives include getting the government out of student lending, requiring colleges to share in student loan risk, and discouraging borrowing by liberal arts majors.
Clovis told Inside Ed that the mere mention of these policy proposals has sent some Washington graybeards into a swivet, and "he expects some higher education leaders to react the same way when Trump outlines these ideas during the fall campaign."
Some of the ideas under consideration could be "revolutionary," Clovis said. Among the proposals currently being prepared are the following:
• A complete shift of the current federal student loan system to a market-based and market-driven system that would be run by private banks
• Remediation programs for those unprepared for college-level work would be renamed "student success programs"
• Colleges would subject applicants to greater scrutiny and only admit those who show promise of graduating and finding jobs within a reasonable time frame
• There would be less emphasis on parent contributions and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and more of "a partnership" between the student, the bank and the college
Saying that all colleges should have skin in the game and share the risk associated with student loans, Clovis noted that many in Congress already voiced support for that idea, adding that "the risk needs to be substantial enough to change the way colleges decide whether to admit students, and which programs they offer."
Good God, man! Just what he's put on the table so far rolls liberal presumptions back to pre-Carter levels!
He's already earned your vote ten times over.
-PJ
Antonio Gramsci is lying in his grave holding his nut sack!
You know it's all a trick, right ;o)
He’s said many, many things over the years. Always for his own advantage. I am not convinced that he means anything he says until I actually see action on it.
If you cry wolf for your entire professional life, expect some doubt when you say anything.
Nonsense.
Pettifoggery.
Crying "wolf" when all levels of government are trying to blame missing livestock on "evil spirits" is a revolutionary act in and of itself.
“ALLOW COLLEGE DEBT TO BE DISCHARGED IN BANKRUPTCY.”
Exactly. Colleges will have skin in the game big time with that change. No bank will extend student loans unless they will be paid back. Market, meet reality.
Too bad I can’t have a different opinion than you.
“Opinion” and quasi-plausible caviling do not share the same pedigree.
Perhaps I need to be sent for re-education, comrade.
“RE-education?”
Watch how fast the left would crush that program.
I’m still not convinced that many of the conservative ideas that Trump has proposed are things he is serious about, but if he can actually do this:
“A complete shift of the current federal student loan system to a market-based and market-driven system that would be run by private banks”
then he will have earned my vote ten times over
So I complemented Trump, and said that this proposal pleased me greatly, but this wasn't good enough for you, was it?
No, because I do not give him the 100% support that you think I should have, I am wrong. Not just wrong, but I can't even have my own opinion.
These are the tactics and behaviors of the Social Justice Warriors that have taken over U.S. Universities.
Even the slightest dissent will not be tolerated, even among those who agree with you.
No, I've responded to you four times because your "compliment" is "damning with faint praise." And even that is predicated on caviling more in keeping with "concern troll" ephemera.
Anyone who can not appreciate the magnitude of what's going on for "fear" of how it's going to turn out is watching the play facing the wrong direction.
P.S. Am I supposed to leave your opinion unexamined just because it’s yours?
And you think I’M the one acting like a university “snowflake?”
No, they will no longer subsidize your wanting the degree or the college for offering it.
except that such types are not even competent to be EPA regulators, since they (generally) know zero real science and have ingested all the politically correct slogans for years....
Snowflake? No, you are acting like a SJW bully.
If someone doesn’t toe the line on every single item on your agenda, they are not correct.
This type of behavior is what has driven many, many freepers (and their dollars) away from Freerepublic.
Eating your own is not a way to encourage support.
So how about you quit whining about how you're being repressed for not endorsing "every single item," and tell us what items, and why, you disagree with instead of asserting the nebulous, obdurate "I don't think he can or will do 'X'."
THAT is what FR has always been about, not a passive-aggressive bitchfest with nothing but "he's out for himself" instead of substance.
You should actually be gleeful.
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