![]() ![]() Just two years ago, 61 percent of GOP voters had a favorable view of higher education. Only 37 percent of Republicans in a New America survey released this summer said colleges had a positive effect on the country. In recent years, mistrust has hardened into hostility. “And higher ed is still a useful political tool.”Ĭonservative politicians have embraced higher education as a wedge issue, seizing on mistrust of colleges by a group of Americans: those without a degree, who doubt colleges’ societal and economic benefits, or who are suspicious of campuses’ cultural values - or all three. ![]() “Walker went after higher ed to rally his base: ‘Universities were too liberal! Professors had too good of a deal!’ It was something to oppose,” Taylor said. Taylor, an associate professor of higher education at the University of North Texas, who studied Wisconsin for his new book, Wrecked: Deinstitutionalization and Partial Defenses in State Higher Education Policy. It’s all straight from the Walker playbook, said Barrett J. ![]()
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