Campus Ideology s Slippery Slope | Opinion Michael Poliakoff
, President, American Council of Trustees and Alumni On 5/5/21 at 6:00 AM EDT
Today, the stakes are the survival of academic freedom in higher education.
A day does not go by without news of some skirmish in the fierce ongoing battle to determine whether colleges and universities will hold fast to academic freedom and intellectual diversity as the catalysts of progress. Will our centers of higher learning be home to diverse theories and strategies, or will they take the illiberal path of deciding for faculty and students what they should believe?
A civil and unprejudiced campus is a priority for any academic community that is true to its purpose. But when a community of scholars and teachers, especially a famous and influential one, trades time-honored principles of free inquiry for reflexive and enforced social theories, it damages the broader social fabric.