Charlie Sykes

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler. ”

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution. ”

In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining and expansions of school choice. ”

The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no longer is higher or much of an education. ”

Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students. ”

Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it. ”

If a university announced that henceforth, it would be offering a three-year bachelor's degree, in one stroke it would cut the cost of a college education and provide a distinctive way of competing for students - as well as put the institution on the cutting edge of reform. ”

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students. ”

In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished. ”

To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree? ”