Sharp Decline in GOP Support for Higher Ed Began Well Before Trump, Study Finds
By jessica.blake@insidehighered.com••Inside Higher Ed
Sharp Decline in GOP Support for Higher Ed Began Well Before Trump, Study Finds jessica.blake@… Wed, 05/13/2026 - 03:00 AM The political polarization of lawmakers’ views on higher ed may be at an all-time high, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. One …
Political scientist Eric Shickler has fond memories of his years as an undergraduate at the New College of Florida, and he recalls that many other Floridians in the late 1980s and early 1990s felt th…