WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Senator Todd Young issued the following press release:
Congress should act to remove higher education's mechanisms that protect those already advantaged by wealth and birth.
For generations, Americans have told themselves a simple story: In this country, talent, character, and hard work - not birth - should shape our future, determining how far someone can rise. That principle has guided our republic since its founding. Yet in elite higher education, admissions policies too often contradict it. Preferences for the children of alumni and major donors have become a quiet, but consequential, form of advantage. They have become the "artificial aristocracy" that Thomas Jefferson warned against.
Congress now has an oppor...