Writing today at Minding the Campus, Prof. Richard Vedder takes a look at Obama’s higher-education plans and does not like what he sees at all.

I would add that it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the Obama agenda is saturated in special-interest-group politics, the key consideration being, “Does this help a voting bloc that favors us?” The favors dished out to Big Labor are Exhibit A, but it’s just as true with higher ed. The nation’s productivity won’t be improved one bit by putting more academically marginal kids through college. Shoveling resources into higher ed, however, supports a fanatical Democratic constituency and also puts more people within the ambit of educators who are far more likely to extol the statist path the country is hurtling down than to criticize it.