Teacher, blame thyself: Yale report savages Ivy League schools for destroying American trust in higher education

America’s colleges and universities are facing a crisis of legitimacy, and Yale University just issued one of the most candid institutional diagnoses yet of how they got here—and what it will take to climb out.

A faculty committee convened by Yale president Maurie McInnis released a sweeping report Wednesday on the collapse of public confidence in higher education, offering a blunt assessment of the sector’s failures on cost, admissions, free speech, and governance. The findings, a year in the making...