Pay Attention to “The Manhattan Statement” (opinion)

Manhattan Institute Releases Statement Urging Defunding of ‘Woke’ Universities — Minding The Campus

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on August 1, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A proposal by a high-profile conservative organization to fix higher education by enacting reforms at the federal level—basically withholding funding from misbehaving schools—is making the rounds […] The post Manhattan Institute Releases Statement …

Manhattan Institute statement on reforming higher ed prompts praise, criticism, debate

A proposal by a high-profile conservative organization to fix higher education by enacting reforms at the federal level — basically withholding funding from misbehaving schools — is making the rounds through academia, prompting a mix of praise, criticism and debate. The Manhattan Institute recently published The Manhattan Statement for Higher Education, signed by 44 well-known scholars… Source

Pay Attention to “The Manhattan Statement” (opinion)

A Manhattan Institute statement offers a road map for a new level of federal interference in higher ed, Amanda Fuchs Miller writes. Earlier this month, the Manhattan Institute released a statement with a proposed “new contract” for higher education and called on President Trump to write the terms of that contract into “every grant, payment, loan, eligibility, and accreditation” and then revoke federal funding for colleges and universities if the…