Since the 1960s and especially after the creation of the Department of Education in 1979, the federal government has played an ever-increasing role in higher education — usually to make it worse. Now that there is a serious counterattack against the terrible mess that higher ed has become, many Americans have been looking to the feds to clean things up.

While the federal government has some role to play in reversing the policies that have made college so expensive and often so intellectually toxic, it’s a mistake to think that the federal government is going to be the savior. So argues Jenna Robinson in today’s Martin Center article. We should instead look to the states.

One lesson from the Trump era is that, while Uncle Sam has an important role to play, higher-education governance is primarily a state responsibility. Public universities........

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