That’s the main point of a predictably laudatory piece in Inside Higher Ed.

Let’s hope that no one does. The continual ratcheting up of federal funding of and control over higher education that Senator Kennedy championed has had nothing but baneful effects. What would be ideal would be a Senate leader who would start to ratchet down the extent of federal involvement, aiming at the right degree, both constitutionally and policy-wise, which is to say, none.