Saving the Universities

Commentary magazine: Yuval Levin on "A New Hope for Saving the Universities." An excerpt:

The pathbreaker was the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. Launched in 2017 with strong backing from then-governor Doug Ducey and key state legislators, SCETL is a new freestanding academic unit within a major state university. It has the power to do its own hiring, promotion, and tenure. It can approve courses and grant degrees. It’s not an outside organization at the margins of a university but an inside institution with a claim on a portion of a flagship state school.