The people who write and grade the students’ tests would not be their instructors. Students would have to acquire a genuine general knowledge base, not just memorize what is supposed to be on the exam. It would not have assistant deans, student affairs staff or sports teams. The focus would be on paying more money to the better instructors. Instructors would not have tenure, but would have to compete for students — by offering them classes and services that would help them graduate and improve the quality of their certification pages. The school would hire online instructors too, many of them from poorer countries and working at lower wages. None of the instructors would be required to have any undergraduate or advanced degrees.

2021-11-09: Tyler is involved in a new university:

To the historian’s eyes, there is something unpleasantly familiar about the patterns of behavior that have, in a matter of a few years, become normal on many campuses. The chanting of slogans. The brandishing of placards. The letters informing on colleagues and classmates. The denunciations of professors to the authorities. The lack of due process. The cancelations. The rehabilitations following abject confessions. The officiousness of unaccountable bureaucrats. Any student of the totalitarian regimes of the mid-20th century recognizes all this with astonishment. It turns out that it can happen in a free society, too, if institutions and individuals who claim to be liberal choose to behave in an entirely illiberal fashion.

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