Trump and his allies have a vision for higher education. So warned Ian Gavigan, the executive director of Higher Education Labor United (a national labor formation uniting Higher Education unions across the country), on the podcast The Dig earlier this month. In Trump’s world, according to Gavigan, fewer students attend college, fewer subjects are taught, more education money is funneled into narrow career and technical education (including that offered by dubious for-profit colleges and universities), and the course content that remains is subject to ideological review overseen by MAGA lieutenants.
