Who says faculty committees are a waste of time? Earlier this month, a committee of 10 faculty members at Yale University released a report investigating the reasons for the dramatic decline of higher education’s reputation in the United States. The concern is warranted.
In 2023 and 2024, Gallup found that only 36% of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in institutions of higher learning. The number bumped up to 42% last year, but that’s still far below the 57% who expressed who said the same when the poll was first conducted in 2015. (That’s the year I left academia, but I try not to take these things personally.)
Yale’s Report of the Committee on Trust in Higher Education is a bracing document that forthrightly acknowledges that the growing mistrust of our colleges and universities is well-earned and offers challenging but reasonable solutions. It should gladden anyone interested
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