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The fat years that higher ed has enjoyed over the last two decades with spending up 74% per student since 1991 have obscured the fact that the system is badly broken. Conservatives have tended to focus on the failings of K-12, but higher ed is both more wasteful and more dysfunctional. Consider:
* Left-wing ideologues are firmly in control of the humanities and liberal arts.
* Students spend less and less time studying, and they are not being challenged to think, speak or write
* More and more resources are being spent on research, and fewer and fewer on undergraduate teaching.
* The overemphasis on narrow research programs leaves students with an incoherent potpourri of random bits of knowledge, in place of a truly liberal education in the best that has been written and thought.
Theres a simple solution to all four of these problems: return to the fundamental principles of competition and free choice. Some disciplines, like philosophy and Spanish, teach thousands of students with a handful of professors, while politically favored programs, like ethnic and gender studies, have abundant resources and few students
Pajamas Media » Want Education Reform? Start With Higher Ed
Interesting ideas. Comments?