Yale Report Is a Wake up Call for Colleges

Trust Is Not an Academic Value: Mistakes of the Yale Report

Trust Is Not an Academic Value: The Mistakes of the Yale Report Sara Brady Tue, 04/28/2026 - 03:00 AM Any report devoted to trust in academia is constructed on a flawed foundation. Byline(s) John K. Wilson

Yale report is a wake up call for colleges

University administrators sometimes ask how their institutions can best serve democracy. For decades, many believed their role was to serve as instruments of social change. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs, especially in hiring and admissions, were one part of the…

The Yale Report Won't Save American Higher Education

The Yale Report Won’t Save American Higher Education

Putting a committee of faculty in charge of determining what has gone wrong in American higher education was like putting a team of drug dealers in charge of determining how best to enforce the nation’s drug laws.

Hope or Hype? What to Make of Yale’s Report on Trust in Higher Ed

Earlier this month, Yale University’s ten-member Committee on Trust in Higher Education issued a bracing, 58-page report on what’s driven plunging trust in higher ed. The committee was formed a year ago by Yale president Maurie McInnis amidst Trump 2.0’s early onslaught. McInnis charged the committee with determining why confidence in higher ed was at an all-time low and what to do about it. As McInnis wrote in her introduction to the report, “U…

Why Americans Don’t Trust Higher Education

Higher education has been buzzing about a new report from Yale University on the decline of public trust in colleges and universities. The report is unexpectedly self-flagellatory, which is why it’s earned hyperbolic headlines since its release. (“Yale report savages Ivy League schools for destroying trust in higher education,” blared Fortune.) Many of the report’s recommendations, drafted by a 10-member committee, will no doubt improve Yale’s i…