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Trump victory will be a jolt for higher education

Inside Higher Ed: Donald Trump stunned the pundits and confounded the pollsters on Tuesday by being elected president of the United States. Many in higher education -- including many college leaders who had long lists of objections to Hillary Clinton's plan for free public higher education -- were horrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency.

The Republican candidate regularly attacked colleges as politically correct, his comments about non-Americans in the United States worried many college leaders who depend on international students, and he rejected consensus science about climate change and other topics. His student supporters on campus -- in many cases outnumbered but active nonetheless -- set off a series of conflicts and debates about free speech with in-your-face tactics such as building fake walls to symbolize the one Trump vowed to build on the border with Mexico.

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