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| Subject: Higher Education’s Enemy Within Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:06 pm | |
| An army of nonfaculty staff push for action and social justice at the expense of free inquiry.
American higher education seems to be in a permanent state of crisis. Almost monthly, a federal court has occasion to reprimand some college or university for improperly chilling speech, even as some students continue to complain that campuses are too friendly to the wrong kind of speakers. Many institutions have cut back on faculty hiring, even as the cost of tuition grows. Two basic, and mutually reinforcing, phenomena are behind the chaos on campus.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-educations-enemy-within-11573251941
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