How to Save Higher Education from Itself

There are two dominant narratives on higher education in America. Predictably, they fall along partisan lines. They go something like this.

Progressives defend the current system, arguing for its expansion. For them, the state of American higher education remains strong. American post-secondary education is the envy of the world. Sheikhs and prime ministers send their children to the United States to be educated in business, engineering, political science, and more. A university education equips students from Chicago to Appalachia with the skills to succeed in life, and that is no small thing.