Biden calls time on Trump’s four-year moratorium on truth
Donald Trump will go down in history as the worst United States president ever. In terms of higher education, he will be remembered not only as a president hostile to its fundamental purpose – the pursuit of knowledge – but also as one who failed to leverage the strengths of US universities to make for a better world.
The extent to which the Trump administration leaves a higher education legacy will perhaps best be determined by the shelf life of its meagre policy accomplishments. But the damage done from his four-year moratorium on truth and his unending embrace of nationalism presents a deeper challenge.