Americans are rightly increasingly angry about our colleges and universities. While many critics of higher education have outlined many sins (Victor Davis Hanson is particularly noteworthy), we can say the four biggest ones are that college is too costly, involves too little learning, is increasingly intolerant or contemptuous of free expression and diversity of opinion, and graduates students who increasingly are “underemployed,” taking relatively unskilled jobs for which college training did next to nothing to improve labor productivity. It is no wonder that 2016 is the fifth consecutive year of falling enrollments.
