September 11 Attacks Spurred Expansion of Homeland Security Programs at America's Colleges and Universities

Continuing coverage of the series at Los Angeles Times, "9/11, Ten Years After."

Here's a report from Wednesday, "9/11 spawned big changes on campus."

Check the whole thing. It's fascinating. But, while it's great that more and more students have cultivated a deeper sense of civic duty following September 11, the idea that increasing numbers of students are turning to the public sector for government jobs is a little dismaying. In a time of deep economic stagnation, the nation should be churning out enterprisers and inventers. Instead, we churn out bureaucrats and regulators. There's certainly a place for each in a $15 trillion economy, but the pace of government growth relative to the private sector has not declined. Strange. But then again, this is exactly the stuff that Mark Steyn's been warning about, so ain't that the darnedest?