In today’s Pope Center article, my colleague Jenna Robinson writes about higher-ed leadership from a perspective suggested by Edmund Burke: Do we want those in positions of authority to just facilitate student desires (the “delegate” role), or do we want them to exercise their judgment and try to make college education what it ought to be even if it isn’t what students (and the faculty) want? Burke famously wrote that he thought members of parliament should exercise judgment regarding the best course for the whole nation and not just try to “bring home the bacon” for the voters back home. Jenna (and I) think that higher ed would be a much better value if its leadership would act more like Burke’s “trustees” and less like “delegates.”