A reckoning is coming for higher education.
On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it would pull $400 million in grants from Columbia University on Title IV grounds that the school has failed to protect students from repeated cases of antisemitism.
As a follow up in a weekend of bad news for Columbia, one of its students faces deportation for supporting the Hamas terrorist group.
It sounds like this may be just the beginning. Many other schools could soon see hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars evaporate. And some Republicans in Congress are considering doing even more to put the screws to higher education with proposals to tax their gargantuan endowments to pay off student loans.
This isn’t the same old GOP that complains about the radicalism and increasing uselessness of academia but does nothing.
For really more than half a century,…
