The Death of American Higher Education
How ideological capture and administrative bloat destroyed the university's mission — and what must be done to restore it.
Yorktown University was founded to offer an alternative to the ideological monoculture that had overtaken most American colleges. For sixteen years we fought for regional accreditation while the accreditors moved the goalposts every time we came close.
The story is told in full in my book The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education. The short version is this: the modern university no longer exists to transmit knowledge or form character. It exists to credential, to redistribute status, and to enforce a narrow set of political commitments.
The solution is not reform from within. The solution is the creation of new institutions — small, rigorous, and unafraid — alongside the selective defunding of the old ones. Parents, donors, and state legislatures hold the power. They have simply refused, until now, to use it.
The resurrection will come from the outside.