From WSJopinion: Higher ed, like the rest of America, will suffer from the coronavirus. It deserves some federal support. But don’t make it a blank check, argues David Randall.
With most colleges and universities shut down by the novel coronavirus, some groups representing these institutions are asking the federal government to bail them out. The Senate coronavirus aid package proposes allocating some $14 billion to a Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. Some assistance is in order, but lawmakers must avoid layering another massive subsidy onto an already dysfunctional system.
The National Association of Scholars has long advocated changes to the Higher Education Act that would force America’s...
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