The Political Argument for Higher Education
Let me start with three comments/conversations I’ve seen and had in the past little while. Those are all interesting observations on their own but let’s think about the implications of the three comments together. In other words, institutions have two choices. First, they can wait for brief moments when the political system allows politicians to ignore the short-term interests of donors and hit them hard. Or, second, they can exert themselves to try to make institutions like universities and colleges