1. The US higher education crisis doesn't get the attention proportionate to its impact because there are other short term US crises such as the housing crisis, the mass incarceration crisis and now, the police brutality crisis.
https://twitter.com/dynarski/status/1316766125347295240
2. All these crises have been decades in the making, some even from the "original sin" of the constitutional fetishism. Police brutality has always existed but large scale public rejection of police as an institution has reached ungovernability levels.
3. What does this have to do with the higher education crisis? Everything: the US has become almost indigent in delivering high-quality professionals in essential fields like medicine or economics. The quality erosion combined with the huge student debt was bound to explode.
4. Higher education for long-term scientific and cultural development has been degenerating in the US for a long time. The result is the *trivialization of higher education*. The one policy that rendered the US a global scientific power has been completely overturned.
5. It was approved in 1945 and is known as the Vannevar Bush report ("science, the endless frontier"). Read the report and draw a scenario that is the exact opposite of that. That is the US higher education today.
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