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Majority of Republicans have negative view of higher ed, Pew finds

President Trump has questioned the value of community colleges and suggested universities “restrict free thought.” Survey results in 2017 suggested typical conservatives have begun to share his dim view of higher ed. In a Pew survey, only 36 percent of Republican and GOP-leaning respondents said higher education had a positive effect on the direction of the country — a steep drop-off from responses only two years before.