Thursday, November 10, 2016

What Will the Trump Presidency Mean for Education? - Campus Technology

Disturbingly little is known with any certainty about President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s plans for education. Even credible speculation is difficult, given that Trump is far from a traditional Republican and that his statements on a range of issues have proved somewhat inconsistent over the last year or so. But one thing is certain for a Trump presidency backed by a Republican-dominated Congress: Education policy is going to move in a new direction. In her essay, 'Higher Education Under Trump,’ published today on Medium,” Goldrick-Rab predicts that with Trump in the White House, “America will be ‘open for business’ when it comes to promoting for-profit colleges and universities . This means cutting regulation and oversight, and defunding public higher education so that students view for-profits as a good deal. Witness: Trump University.” https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/11/09/what-will-a-trump-presidency-mean-for-education.aspx