This article discusses the growing concern around elite higher education in America, specifically institutions like Columbia and Harvard, which are seen as increasingly divisive rather than unifying. While they have historically contributed significantly to economic growth through federal support for research, recent governmental policy changes, particularly under the Trump administration, threaten this relationship. With funding cuts impacting research and competition from European universities growing, there's urgent dialogue about the future of these institutions and their societal role.
America's large private research universities, such as Columbia and Harvard, have long been crucial to its economic exceptionalism.
Now, instead of being a source of national pride, many elite universities have become a source of national division.
Federal money helps to pay those higher salaries, as well as to defray research costs.
This whole system is mostly the brainchild of Vannevar Bush, who advocated for government investment in research post-World War II.
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