HILLSDALE, MI (WTVB) – Education Secretary Linda McMahon denounced higher education as broken in a speech Monday at Hillsdale College, directing her remarks primarily at four-year institutions and pitching her vision for how to improve American colleges and universities.
She wants to see a system of higher education that’s rigorous and prepares students for a career, but is also dedicated to truth-seeking and committed to treating institutions as “repositories of our civilizational inheritance,” She raised concerns about colleges allegedly taking “real American history” out of the curriculum and questioned whether tax dollars should go to institutions that detract from “our nation’s strength.”
Secretary McMahon said “Decline is a choice, and too many college leaders today have made that choice and failed to own up to it,” She questioned how many true leaders are there in higher education.
McMahon’s stop at Hillsdale is part of her nationwide Returning Education to the States tour. She didn’t touch on how shutting down the Education Department would affect colleges but did spend some time highlighting how broken she thinks the system is. In particular, she took issue with the number of administrators on campuses, arguing that the system “delivers disillusionment for millions of students.”
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