Plenty to go around: The Trump administration has revoked $430 million in federal grant money from Columbia University. The school’s president, Katrina Armstrong, doesn’t appear keen on implementing reforms that would put Columbia on a path to restoring its relationship with the federal government. So what should the administration do with the money? We have ideas.
“There is something rotten in American higher education,” our editors write, “but the rot is far more severe at America’s elite private institutions than at their public counterparts.” $430 million could go a long way “if spread across the SEC to fund programs teaching American kids how to build drones.” But it doesn’t need to go to college students. $430 million “for vocational training for kids who aren’t going to college—building roads and bridges and anything else that requires wavy equipment and hard work and the skills that will be necessary if the worst comes to…
