Is College Becoming Obsolete? | Erika Donalds Explains

<p>AI represents the single greatest disruption to higher education cartels in generations. That&#39;s why so many institutions are teaching students that it&#39;s evil.</p><p><br></p><p>Erika Donalds, founder of the Education Freedom Foundation and Chair of the Center for Education Opportunity at America First Policy Institute, joins Jim Iuorio and Bobby Iaccino to break down how AI is upending the university system, where the Trump administration actually stands on dismantling the federal Department of Education, and why civics and literacy have collapsed in K-12 schools.</p><p><br></p><p>Donalds argues that AI is going to lessen the need for higher education in its current form, run by what she calls &quot;the education cartels,&quot; including the university systems, accreditation bodies, and unions that have kept innovation out and ballooned costs for decades</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamp </p><p>01:20 – Erika&#39;s Italian heritage and family background</p><p>02:19 – Erika&#39;s recent Washington Examiner article</p><p>03:13 – What should university presidents do about AI?</p><p>04:24 – Is elite schools&#39; AI rigidity just hubris?</p><p>05:34 – Separating AI cheating from AI learning</p><p>06:34 – How assignments can show the AI process, not just the answer</p><p>08:24 – The &quot;education cartels&quot; quote: AI&#39;s disruption of higher ed</p><p>09:45 – AI will reduce the need for higher ed in its current form</p><p>11:42 – Elite universities in the crosshairs: is networking still worth it?</p><p>13:59 – Civics education collapse and the viral &quot;Botswana&quot; story</p><p>15:30 – How civics got pushed aside for reading and math testing</p><p>17:13 – The World Cup and America 250: a national pride boost</p><p>18:48 – Gramsci and academia as an ideological battleground</p><p>19:49 – Progress dismantling the Department of Education</p><p>20:26 – McMahon&#39;s interagency agreements: student loans to Treasury</p><p>22:48 – Congress files 10 bills to finish the job</p><p>24:08 – Keri Ingraham&#39;s 10% funding stat, confirmed</p><p>24:21 – The bureaucracy tax: 37-40 cents lost per dollar</p><p>26:39 – Minimum wage laws are killing teen employment</p><p>30:42 – Vocabulary and literacy collapse: &quot;halted in sixth grade&quot;</p><p>31:33 – Only a third of college freshmen have read a full book</p><p>33:52 – Student loan reforms in the &quot;big beautiful bill&quot;</p><p>35:34 – Will there be AI-focused trade schools?</p><p>37:32 – Interpersonal sk