OPINION: Did Your Child Return From College a Better Person?

When assessing America's or any of the Western world's universities -- wondering whether you should send your child to one; whether you should pay for a child to attend one; whether you should go into great debt to attend one; whether you should donate money to one; and related questions -- it would seem that the single most important question to be answered is: What type of person does the university produce?

It is hard to imagine any parent -- left, right, liberal, conservative or apolitical -- who would disagree...