Bruni in the New York Times: “What happened to college as a theater of intellectual betterment, character development, self-discovery? Measuring schools by their financial return on students’ investments — an approach that predates Trump’s political rise and was, in fact, at the center of the Obama administration’s vaunted College Scorecard — occludes higher education’s other vital functions. Colleges are supposed to nurture nimble thinkers. They’re meant to produce informed and enlightened citizens who are better equipped to leaven passion with reason. There’s a deficit of those now, as ominous as any budgetary shortfall.” Read more here.