KEITH WHITTINGTON: The Partisan Split On Higher Ed. “A new Pew survey reveals that the partisan split that became visible a couple of years ago in public perceptions of American higher education has continued. In the long term, this cannot be good for American colleges and universities.”

Flashback: ‘Tolerant’ educators exile Trump voters from campus. “One of the more amusing bits of fallout from last week’s election has been the safe-space response of many colleges and universities to the election of the ‘wrong’ candidate. But on closer examination, this response isn’t really amusing. In fact, it’s downright mean. . . . But when you treat an election in which the ‘wrong’ candidate wins as a traumatic event on a par with the 9/11 attacks, calling for counseling and safe spaces, you’re implicitly saying that everyone who supported that ‘wrong’ candidate is, well, unsafe. Despite the talk about diversity and inclusion, this is really sending the signal that people who supported Trump — and Trump is leading the state of Michigan, so there are probably quite a few on campus — aren’t really included in acceptable campus culture. It’s not promoting diversity; it’s enforcing uniformity. It’s not promoting inclusion; it’s practicing exclusion. And though it pretends to be about nurturing, it’s actually about being mean to those who don’t fall in the nurtured class.”

People have noticed.