What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part I

As he worked, over the past few weeks, to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Donald Trump announced that Senator J.D. Vance would be his running mate for the 2024 presidential election. Likewise, since his nomination, Vance has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, even though a month ago he posted about writing the foreword for the President of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts’ new book, calling it “a bold vision for the future of conservatism in America.” The 900+ page Project 2025, titled Mandate for Leadership, takes aim at a plethora of democratic institutions and ideas, and over the course of the next few months, I will explore some of these. I can’t tackle everything because I do not have the expertise of time, but I want to provide some information on some of the topics, namely education, homeland security, and others, to inform you about what is at stake this November.

While many people say that The Heritage Foundation is not a legislative body and that the Trump administration would not have to take their guidance, it is worth noting that during Trump’s previous term the foundation boasted that his administration, as of 2018, enacted 64% of the policies they laid out in a blueprint for the Trump administration. As well, we know that six of Trump former cabinet secretaries, four individuals who…