The remedy is for the Federal Government to be barred totally from giving any money or resources to any educational institution and to decommission every department or agency that has any bearing on education and to get completely out of the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans for education or any damned thing else.
Yes, it’s mostly the fault of government. DOE regulation and the teachers union monopoly have corrupted lower education and government grant money has corrupted higher education.
But there is another sickness that can’t be blamed on government alone, but rather is the fault of the same societal decline that has gradually allowed the government to get too big and powerful in the first place:
We the People have delegated too much to the universities by hiring based on educational degrees and credentials rather than judging and testing candidates for ourselves through apprenticeships, internships and experiential training.
Two of my children were so good at coding that they skipped college altogether, and still rose up to become project managers and then executives in their companies. For whatever reason, coding was so “results oriented”, that their superiors were able to look past degrees and credentials and judge then and promote them on merit alone.
Meanwhile, my other two children did complete their advanced degrees, one in nurse anesthesiology from U of PA, the other in law from Villa Nova. Both are doing quite well in fields that make proper use of credentials without sacrificing merit-based advancement.
Other than a few exceptions though, higher education is completely corrupted - even the sciences - where grant money is awarded according to how much one’s thesis supports the bogus climate change narrative.
All applicants know that if they want a grant to study X, they need only phrase their request “The affects of climate change on X” and they will surely be awarded their grant. It’s become a total joke.