Much of American higher education is wasteful or worse, imparting mistaken ideas about the world in the minds of students to make them amenable to the “progressive” project of ever-expanding state control. It costs a tremendous amount but often delivers little more than a paper credential.
You might think that such an industry would be easy for innovators to enter so as to successfully lure customers into their superior offerings. In today’s Martin Center article, David Dufendach looks at the problems that confront those who contemplate higher-education innovation.
He examines two big problems — the barriers to entry and the possibility of retaliation by entrenched schools — and concludes that they are not fatal to innovation, writing, “Although the deck is currently stacked in favor of the existing DEI culture, there are many opportunities that await the educational entrepreneur.”