That was a good piece: You nailed the root cause of corruption in these allegedly "private" universities. But I question your proposed solution: "....phase out, gradually and impartially, all federal grants and subsidies. Make private universities fully private. Let each of us as individuals decide which universities we will frequent and fund." Indeed, that should happen, but who is going to make it happen? There is virtually no chance that the fraudsters who have a stranglehold on our universities will abandon their lucrative government-education-industrial complex. The revolution in education will have to come from a bottom-up, grassroots movement—an "end run" around the establishment. That, in my view, is the right call to action. Good job, keep it up.
"If Harvard and other private universities truly seek freedom, therefore, they should demand that federal research funding be altogether phased out." Truer words are seldom written. Well said.
The ethical problem of racially defined policies directly analogous to those in Rand's essay "Representation Without Authorization" may be what the Trump Administration is attacking, but the solution is not a change in conditions associated with the federal funds pocketed by research universities, but rather an end to the practice entirely (while addressing the underlying anti-racism objectives differently).
The vast productivity and excellence of those universities should indeed (continue to) contribute to combating and preventing racism or other bigotries. They should do it through less direct, but just as real, education and research initiatives, using private funding, except in cases where the universities are chosen under competitive free market conditions to fulfill a specific vendor requirement.
That was a good piece: You nailed the root cause of corruption in these allegedly "private" universities. But I question your proposed solution: "....phase out, gradually and impartially, all federal grants and subsidies. Make private universities fully private. Let each of us as individuals decide which universities we will frequent and fund." Indeed, that should happen, but who is going to make it happen? There is virtually no chance that the fraudsters who have a stranglehold on our universities will abandon their lucrative government-education-industrial complex. The revolution in education will have to come from a bottom-up, grassroots movement—an "end run" around the establishment. That, in my view, is the right call to action. Good job, keep it up.
"If Harvard and other private universities truly seek freedom, therefore, they should demand that federal research funding be altogether phased out." Truer words are seldom written. Well said.
The ethical problem of racially defined policies directly analogous to those in Rand's essay "Representation Without Authorization" may be what the Trump Administration is attacking, but the solution is not a change in conditions associated with the federal funds pocketed by research universities, but rather an end to the practice entirely (while addressing the underlying anti-racism objectives differently).
The vast productivity and excellence of those universities should indeed (continue to) contribute to combating and preventing racism or other bigotries. They should do it through less direct, but just as real, education and research initiatives, using private funding, except in cases where the universities are chosen under competitive free market conditions to fulfill a specific vendor requirement.