Where the Republican war on higher education completely unravels.
By Kent Nishimura, USA Today Network
Even before the embarrassing performances of the presidents of MIT, Harvard and UPenn on anti-Semitism in December, Republican leaders — particularly those representing the least educated voters — have been assailing American universities, dragging them into conservatives’ latest culture wars.
In September, the Republican auditor of Mississippi — the second-most uneducated state — called several social science and humanities degree programs at state universities “indoctrination factories.” Among the “garbage fields” in that audit were anthropology, sociology and — of course — African American studies.
The same month, in West Virginia — the most poorly educated state — 28 majors and 143 faculty positions were eliminated at West Virginia University, whose budget was cut 36% between 2013 and 2022 by its Republican-dominated legislature. One third of WVU’s education department faculty was fired along with its entire world language department. The university’s board also proposed cutting its graduate programs in mathematics.
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