I guess this guy Leson has not spent much time observing education in universities, even though he is a professor. Once you get away from the hard sciences and mathematics departments at universities, they are extremely politicized. They push the leftist agenda relentlessly, to the point where students who do not toe the socialist line are shunned and harassed, and may not get an education. The current socialist-heavy environment of most campuses is hardly conducive to the pursuit of truth that Leson mentioned.
True, I am only familiar with MD and CA universities, but I do not think WI universities would be any different.
“Once you get away from the hard sciences and mathematics departments at universities,”
As a representative from industry I went to a university to judge robotics proposals. We selected a winner but one of the professors clasped his hands together and said, in effect, “we can’t have any losers. Let’s declare them all winners.” I said, “One group is totally clueless and doesn’t even realize they have no workable concept. So, how are you going to tell them they win but can’t have any of the limited funds to build their design?” He said, “We’ll just split the (I think $2000.)” The rest of us stared at him as nobody’s design could be built for the reduced funds. Another professor came to our rescue and we did select a winner. The problem the first guy was wrestling was the clueless group was 100% black and he thought it would be racist if they lost.
I came away disappointed at how PC engineering had become. I was also never invited back.
The ‘truth’ means Howard Zinn and not Larry Schweikart.