 An increasing percentage of Americans are losing confidence in higher education. Michael Kastner reports. According to the latest Gallup poll, 32% of those surveyed said they have only some confidence in higher education and 32% expressed little or no confidence. Gallup first asked this question in 2015 and found 50% of Americans had a great deal of confidence in the country's colleges and universities. That compares with 36% in the latest survey.