College enrollments have been dropping and one reason why, argues Professor Richard Vedder in today’s Martin Center article, is that they often make their students miserable.

He writes:

The prevailing contemporary zeitgeist on American campuses has emphasized injustice and perceived oppression, stressing racial differences. Vast new campus bureaucracies, particularly DEI offices, support this perspective. The collegiate message largely has been, “Life in America is cruel and unjust, and you need to get indignant about it.” Protests over perceived injustices have persisted, some harming innocent, conscientious students, and often accompanied by such deplorable characteristics as antisemitism, property destruction, and the shouting down of speakers.

But there is some good news. Vedder notes that enrollments are up at those rather few schools that have resisted wokeness.

Read the whole thing.