I’m sure a student there who wished to challenge the conventional view of Chavez as a saintly hero would find his or her challenge welcomed in the spirit of academic freedom.
Also: My goodness, what a load of PC gobbledygook. “Relative to our reality”— whaaa?
I think they meant “relevant”, but when you’re trying to generate academic mumbo-jumbo and call it a mission statement, it doesn’t need to make sense.