Universities Really Are Messed Up (says Yale

[Anonymous]

Yale committee concludes that colleges and universities have completely lost the plot:

“High costs, murky admissions practices, uneven academic standards and fears about free speech on campuses, the committee said, are among the reasons for widening discontent over higher education’s worthiness.

The findings reflect misgivings that Americans have described across years of polling and interviews. But the report, from a 10-professor panel at one of the nation’s most renowned universities, amounts to a damning depiction of academia’s role in cultivating the political and cultural forces that are reshaping higher education’s place in American life.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/yale-report-colleges-unversities-trust.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bVA._ebw.-PVgolGZ4r5r&smid=url-share

[Anonymous]

Interesting.

"The committee offered dozens of recommendations, like expanding financial aid, reducing admissions preferences, zealously protecting free speech and adjusting grading policies."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

"The committee offered dozens of recommendations, like expanding financial aid, reducing admissions preferences, zealously protecting free speech and adjusting grading policies."

Which admissions preferences will go? Legacy? Athletics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

"The committee offered dozens of recommendations, like expanding financial aid, reducing admissions preferences, zealously protecting free speech and adjusting grading policies."

Which admissions preferences will go? Legacy? Athletics?

and donors. they call all those out

[Anonymous]

Rich coming from Yale, who only accepts legacy donors from our top private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rich coming from Yale, who only accepts legacy donors from our top private.

Not for much longer perhaps. no more legacy. maybe no more feeder privates.

[Anonymous]

This sounds like an attempt by Yale to conflate Yale’s weaknesses with challenges being faced by other institutions. Yale is solely responsible for squandering its advantages and diminishing its reputation.

[Anonymous]

Hundreds of colleges are trying to recruit kids who would rather chase the schools they reject everyone. Articles like this will have you thinking all the colleges are bad when it’s just a handful.

If you are against the practices of Yale, go elsewhere. Dont expect a faculty report to suddenly change things at the schools that reject 96% of their applicants.

[Anonymous]

Progressives avoid common sense in all aspects, especially education. And since they dominate all top colleges, this concern for reform will blow over as soon as the bullhorn brigades mobilize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Progressives avoid common sense in all aspects, especially education. And since they dominate all top colleges, this concern for reform will blow over as soon as the bullhorn brigades mobilize.

I would say the elite and leave it at that, conservatives and progressives have completely gone off the deep end when it comes to college. They stopped being about education long ago and just are just another mechanism of the elite to reinforce the caste system that exists in the US. Multi million dollar donors, questionable charities and so called commmuniity service, high priced consultants as a requirement on top of being a legacy and bastardizing sports that used to be available to all. Driving up the cost of college while pretending to help the lower income, and less we forget the ridiculous process of joining clubs onc you arrive on campus all while sucking the government dry and collecting billion dollar endowments. This farce must end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rich coming from Yale, who only accepts legacy donors from our top private.

I applaud the new Yale President for commissioning the report and for releasing the results publicly. Wound you rather Yale had just buried its head in the sand - like so many other elite institutions?

I do t know what happens next but first step is acknowledging the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Progressives avoid common sense in all aspects, especially education. And since they dominate all top colleges, this concern for reform will blow over as soon as the bullhorn brigades mobilize.

I would say the elite and leave it at that, conservatives and progressives have completely gone off the deep end when it comes to college. They stopped being about education long ago and just are just another mechanism of the elite to reinforce the caste system that exists in the US. Multi million dollar donors, questionable charities and so called commmuniity service, high priced consultants as a requirement on top of being a legacy and bastardizing sports that used to be available to all. Driving up the cost of college while pretending to help the lower income, and less we forget the ridiculous process of joining clubs onc you arrive on campus all while sucking the government dry and collecting billion dollar endowments. This farce must end.

Exactly, and the recent changes are only going to make it worse. The limits on law school and med school borrowing mean that only families with enough money to pay for their children's graduate education will go into those fields.

[Anonymous]

Unless Yale plans to dramatically increase in size, the only way to end the “murky admissions practices” is to be open about conducting a lottery for everyone over a certain benchmark. There is no fair way to pick a mere 2% from a pool of highly-qualified 17 year olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless Yale plans to dramatically increase in size, the only way to end the “murky admissions practices” is to be open about conducting a lottery for everyone over a certain benchmark. There is no fair way to pick a mere 2% from a pool of highly-qualified 17 year olds.

Honestly, that wouldn't be a bad way to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless Yale plans to dramatically increase in size, the only way to end the “murky admissions practices” is to be open about conducting a lottery for everyone over a certain benchmark. There is no fair way to pick a mere 2% from a pool of highly-qualified 17 year olds.

This is pretty much it. They’re still going to have to reject 96% of their applicants.