Americans are almost equally divided over their confidence in higher education, with an increasing number of individuals expressing reduced trust in postsecondary education, according to a recent Gallup survey.
The poll, released Monday, found 36 percent of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in higher education, while 32 percent said they have some confidence and 32 percent expressed little to no confidence.
The latest findings mark a significant drop in faith from when Gallup first measured confidence in 2015, when 57 percent had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence and only 10 percent had little or none.
Confidence dropped among various subgroups, especially among Republicans, Gallup noted. Twenty percent of Republicans said they are confident, while 50 percent have little or no confidence. The results are nearly the opposite of 2015, when 56 percent of Republicans had a great deal of…
