Adding to the primal scream of the left following Trump’s win are the many administrators and faculty in our higher-education blob. They have been enjoying their fat years (decades, actually), and that’s likely to change under Trump 2.0.

In today’s Martin Center article, Professor Richard Vedder looks into his crystal ball for policy changes that would give us more education for less money. Could we, for example, finally rid ourselves of that Carter disaster, the Department of Education?

He writes:

What would a positive Trump agenda for higher education look like for the next four years? The dismantling of the Department of Education certainly deserves serious consideration. Bottom line: By most indicators, American education today is worse off than when the department began operations in 1980. For starters, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which meddles incessantly on behalf of woke obsessions such as equalizing student punishment rates, could be abolished, with legitimate collegiate civil-rights concerns handled by other agencies, such as the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. OCR has long been the domain of leftist radicals who have used it, among many other things, to decree that colleges must adopt lopsided rules for adjudicating sexual-harassment claims. Eliminating OCR would remove a major source of contagion.

Another good idea that might get traction is requiring colleges that take federal financial aid money for students have to repay some or all of it if the students don’t. Having some “skin in the game” would do wonders to make them think hard about the students they enroll and their academic standards.

And the feds could and should mandate that schools accepting federal funds not inquire about the race of their applicants, making it harder for them to evade the Supreme Court’s ruling against racial preferences.

Read the whole thing.