A new conservative higher education cognoscenti eyes power under Trump - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : In the years since, Rufo, 40, has increasingly focused his attention on higher education.
63% : As a nonsectarian Christian liberal arts school, Hillsdale offers the kind of "classical education," based on Western thought, that Rufo and allies -- and Trump himself -- have said should form the basis of a US college education.
56% : They see this moment as one of extraordinary opportunity: Higher education is rarely more than a blip in presidential politics, but Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, made elite schools -- their cost, their culture, their politics -- a red meat issue in their campaign.
55% : "Perhaps the most influential and provocative spokesperson for Trump World's views on higher education is Christopher Rufo.A right-wing activist and writer, Rufo rose to prominence in the summer of 2020 after an appearance on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News.
55% : Its longtime president, Larry Arnn, declined requests for a phone interview, but said in emailed responses to questions from the Globe that progressives in higher education "emphasize learning how to remake society" rather than knowing "things that last.
34% : Arnn's work on the 1776 Commission and statements of doubt about the results of the 2020 election have made him an outsider in higher education.
24% : Trump vowed to "reclaim" the university from "radical leftists," and Vance went so far as to applaud the state takeover of public universities in Hungary by that country's authoritarian leader.
12% : The best thing Trump and Vance could do for higher education, he said, is to refuse to continue subsidizing these institutional failures.

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