Trump has a huge opening on higher education.  He can build on some of the strong ideas his surrogates have put forth (see this piece in Inside Higher Ed) by taking on an obvious target: tenure. Conservative purists have already attacked Donald J. Trump for not being a true Republican and for really supporting big government.  He has nothing to gain by neglecting the constitutional powers available to the president, and there is a strong regulatory basis for federal action to phase out university tenure.  One could do this fairly easily by legislating that colleges must not have dual tracks of tenured and non-tenured faculty if they want federal support. If You're on the Public Dime, You Are Held to a Public Standard Taxation and the misuse of citizens' compulsory donations to the state were central issues – perhaps the main issue – in the American Revolution.  First on the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence is that...(Read Full Article)