There's a big part of reference 13, and it's there in its title "The Growing Partisan Divide in Views of Higher Education". If you go to its reference (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/07/29/americans-have-become-much-less-positive-about-tech-companies-impact-on-the-u-s/), the actual Pew study, a higher percentage of democrats say colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country relative to 2010. Independents are slightly down, but it is republicans driving most of the decline. That is more evident in reference 13: from 2012-2019, a smaller percentage of dem/lean dem think higher ed has a negative impact while republicans shifted dramatically from 2015-2017. Why this is so important is that republicans and democrats have vastly different views in how to change higher ed.
I would agree with the idea that college has gotten too expensive and there are perverse incentives in how states deal with their university systems. However, overall trust in higher ed is not so much driven by these problems as it is by partisanship and how people view higher ed interacting with culture.
There's a big part of reference 13, and it's there in its title "The Growing Partisan Divide in Views of Higher Education". If you go to its reference (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/07/29/americans-have-become-much-less-positive-about-tech-companies-impact-on-the-u-s/), the actual Pew study, a higher percentage of democrats say colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country relative to 2010. Independents are slightly down, but it is republicans driving most of the decline. That is more evident in reference 13: from 2012-2019, a smaller percentage of dem/lean dem think higher ed has a negative impact while republicans shifted dramatically from 2015-2017. Why this is so important is that republicans and democrats have vastly different views in how to change higher ed.
I would agree with the idea that college has gotten too expensive and there are perverse incentives in how states deal with their university systems. However, overall trust in higher ed is not so much driven by these problems as it is by partisanship and how people view higher ed interacting with culture.