For many years, the schools of the Ivy League built their reputation as the country’s elite institutions. They had people believing that an Ivy education was superior, that the schools trained our future leaders, and that research done by their professors propelled the world forward. Many Americans bought the hype, going to crazy lengths to get their kids into an Ivy.

Over the last couple of years, that image has crashed. In today’s Martin Center article, Professor Rob Jenkins looks upon the wreckage.

He writes:

Indeed, a June 2024 article in Politico magazine noted that, among the American public, ‘elite colleges are increasingly unpopular.’ Earlier the same year, a Gallup survey found that only 36 percent of Americans have any significant level of confidence in higher education overall, while support for Harvard in particular hit a record low.

What has caused this? Jenkins points to the vicious pro-Hamas riots that Ivies allowed to go on and on and the jaw-dropping performance of three of the “elite” presidents when asked in a congressional hearing why they tolerated anti-semitism on their campuses.

Jenkins continues:

“Elite” institutions cannot continue openly discriminating against Jews, whites, and Asians while tacitly supporting terrorism without losing more than funding. They are quickly losing the confidence of the American public and, with it, the stature they have worked so hard to attain. In their hubris, believing themselves absolutely to be the best and brightest, they have decided that whatever they do must be right simply because they do it.

I wait with bated breath for the Ivies to turn away from leftist activism and return to academic excellence.