Americans’ trust in Ivy Leagues is tanking: poll

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Americans’ trust in Ivy Leagues is tanking: poll
Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor
July 15, 2025
 

Voters polled say they want universities to get rid of DEI, ‘advance truth over ideology’

The once epitomized Ivy League institutions of higher education now garner little trust among the American public.

A new poll by the Manhattan Institute found that only 15 percent of voters have a great deal of trust in the elite universities, while 46 percent have little to no trust at all.

Most of those polled said they want to see reforms such as the elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion and race-based admissions and programs.

Additionally, 64 percent “support requiring universities to advance truth over ideology by enforcing rigorous academic standards, controlling for academic fraud, requiring preregistration of scientific studies, and basing decisions on merit,” the poll found.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/americans-trust-in-ivy-leagues-is-tanking-poll/

[roamer_1]

A long, long time gone.

[DefiantMassRINO]

As a working-class Irish American kid growing up in Greater Boston during Forced Busing, I was encouraged to resent liberal social re-engineering, liberal universities, limousine liberals, liberal hypocrisy, liberalism, and that commie propaganda rag, The Boston Globe.

They always seem to have great ideas for other people's children, property, communities, and jobs.

Harvard-educated Ted Kennedy's and Yale-educated John Kerry's peacenik policies often put my father, who work for defense contractors, out of work.

Some people on my wife's mother's side of the family attended Brown University.  One aunt and one cousin are stereo-typical liberal limousine hypocrites.

One Brown-educated aunt is trapped in Tulsa, OK, because she can't afford to move back to the Northeast.  She's become more open-minded to different opinions as she's gone RV'ing around the country for the past few years.  She's outside the proto-typical silo-ed, cloistered, liberal feedback chamber of limousine liberal elitists.

Locally, we refer to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as 'Camelot High'.  We think of Cambridge, Mass, as its own Soviet Socialist Republic.

[escapeefromtaxachusetts]

I learned to resent government planning early on in life as they took my dad's property by eminent domain and leveled the land to build the Southwest Expressway. You never heard of it? Because they never built it. They took the land in Roxbury, leveled the land and decided, no thanks anyway after paying pennies on the dollar and destroying a major business area. I decided early on in life that I wouldn't spend my adult life there and moved to more hospitable area where personal rights are respected and taxes are lower.

[DefiantMassRINO]

I've heard of it.  There's an unfinished overpass by Interstate 95 near Canton.  They may haverepurposed part of the planned route for the Southwest Corridor Orange Line, Commuter Rail, and Amtrak corridor.

Many working class families got screwed by the post-War 'urban renewal' projects.  Imagine what could be if they hadn't torn down the West End to build those Soviet-style concrete eyesores - something resembling the North End instead of Stalingrad.

I learned to resent government planning early on in life as they took my dad's property by eminent domain and leveled the land to build the Southwest Expressway. You never heard of it? Because they never built it. They took the land in Roxbury, leveled the land and decided, no thanks anyway after paying pennies on the dollar and destroying a major business area. I decided early on in life that I wouldn't spend my adult life there and moved to more hospitable area where personal rights are respected and taxes are lower.

[Smokin Joe]

A long, long time gone.

Yep. Until they proved their ability on the ground, it only meant they had the financial backing to go there and fairly good grades.

40, 50 years ago, back when a Bachelor's degree meant something, maybe it was more likely to indicate someone who had learned well at a place where you could learn a lot, but the value of the BA/BS and IV League education have slid a lot since then with all the nonsense being pushed nowadays.

[Smokin Joe]

As a working-class Irish American kid growing up in Greater Boston during Forced Busing, I was encouraged to resent liberal social re-engineering, liberal universities, limousine liberals, liberal hypocrisy, liberalism, and that commie propaganda rag, The Boston Globe.

They always seem to have great ideas for other people's children, property, communities, and jobs.

Harvard-educated Ted Kennedy's and Yale-educated John Kerry's peacenik policies often put my father, who work for defense contractors, out of work.

Some people on my wife's mother's side of the family attended Brown University.  One aunt and one cousin are stereo-typical liberal limousine hypocrites.

One Brown-educated aunt is trapped in Tulsa, OK, because she can't afford to move back to the Northeast.  She's become more open-minded to different opinions as she's gone RV'ing around the country for the past few years.  She's outside the proto-typical silo-ed, cloistered, liberal feedback chamber of limousine liberal elitists.

Locally, we refer to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as 'Camelot High'.  We think of Cambridge, Mass, as its own Soviet Socialist Republic.

Y'all were burning buses in the year I graduated HS in MD (last two years at a private school, because the race riots in the public schools were not conducive to learning). Our schools had been integrated for 7 years by then, mainly because irate liberal Yankees had pushed it on all of us. We found that ironic, to say the least, and it was my first really good hood-up view into the mechanics of the double standard mindset of the Eastern Liberals.