Academia Is Broken. Trump's University 'compact' Can Help Fix It
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The NYT opinion piece suggests that Trump's proposed 'compact' for universities could help fix issues in academia, sparking a discussion on the potential merits and drawbacks of such a reform.
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Pardon me for ignoring your faceless list of bureaucrats and deferring to the free market. The way this is written it's hard to tell if the author is MAGA or Stalinist.