1- Require a basic dress code. It’s difficult to take seriously young people in T-shirts for all occasions.
2- Leave the decision for sexual assault charges exclusively to local law enforcement, not to instructors, administrative employees and professors who engage in show trials designed to stain the reputation of male students.
3- Arrest students who go beyond demonstrations to threats and violence to prevent legitimately selected speakers from addressing campus events.
4- Codify and enforce “academic freedom,” the very marrow of higher education, now an empty phrase convoluted by radical scholars to justify speech codes, curriculum control, and the extinguishing of free expression.
5- Re-define confusing and contradictory admissions policies that maintain difficult standards on the one hand; and outreach, remedial courses, and affirmative action on the other.
6 – Fail students who don’t achieve rather than allowing them to slide through four to six years with no required criteria to remain in school
7- Bring back the two-year General College with required courses designed to assure students and their families that a student will receive a basic education before choosing a major and heading into the real world.
8- Institute the philosophical belief system that focuses on the history, culture and values of Western civilization, the defining essence of higher education in the U.S. from the 1600s to approximately 1980. At that time, “multicultural” campus theorists — under the guise of inclusion and elevation of less achieved cultures — chose to denigrate Western societies as punishment for the historic sins of racism, chauvinism, and imperialism.
9- Update and re-define the university tenure system, an exclusively American anachronism thrust onto U.S. higher education not to improve higher learning, but to establish an ersatz white collar labor union to guarantee lifetime employment and entitlements for professors.
10 – Consider dismantling U. S. colleges and universities and starting over again, freed from identity courses, such as women’s, black and gender studies, and the radical scholars who teach them.
Thought for the New Year: If Oxford and Cambridge — the best colleges of higher learning in the world – have not adopted the new radical scholarship dominant at American colleges, then to what were the radical scholars and theorists aspiring? Obviously, not to raise educational standards and scholarship. Perhaps to undermine American society?