ROTFLMAO. The time for that was about 40 years ago. I think its high time that the American people wake up to the fact that government grant driven junk science and politically correct social theory are the cancerous norms that have infected universities. If people receive any supposed 'scholarship' that emanates from American academia with a jaundiced eye and a load of skepticism, they will be right far more often than wrong.
Ten years ago, I was in a discussion group which included a professor. A topic came up, and I naively suggested to the prof that this might be a good research project.
His response was basicly "using what for funding?"
I then found out that, in academia today, no research gets done which is not funded from some outside source. This means that, you cannot start research until you have secured grant funding, and you are not going to get funding until you have convinced the grant providers that your research results are going to produce results that they will like.