They provide the most critical element of successful political operation: ideology, belief, and agenda. -Matthew G. AnderssonUniversities are also a “professional labor mill” that supplies trained members to the political class...
Universities are especially suited to do this, because they can hold out an array of hard incentives, rewards, and punishments, that effectively guarantees ideological assimilation and behavioral compliance:
- The awarding of degrees,
- the promise of jobs;
- the social ranking by grades and honors;
- the favor of faculty recommendations;
- the enticement of scholarships; and the burden of tuition debt, which shapes risk and reward behavior...
