The Big University Fail

City Journal ^ | 6 Dec, 2023 | Liel Leibovitz

[chuckee]

The difference between Harvard and Penn compared to tech powerhouse MIT is that, at MIT, the few liberal arts majors there are treated as special ed.

[elpadre]

I watched about an hour of that testimony and was surprised that all of them appeared to be out of their element as university presidents. When you think of people in such positions you picture well experienced, wise, articulate persons, possessing and exhibiting good judgement and prudence.

These persons appeared to be shallow ideologues, poorly prepared and out of their league as distinguished university presidents. Have we reached the bottom of the pit in both government and education????

How are selection of university presidents made?? Trustees? Peers? Who?? In these cases they did a lousy job!!!

[Lurker]

“the left is a movement of bigotry, racism and hate.”

Hence my tagline.

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[Liz]

Cancel culture at its most extreme....a real eye-opener.

Academia refuses to have a conservative speaker on campus because it makes some
students feel “triggered or unsafe.” Yet anti-Israeli rallies threatening genocide, are A-okay.

[dandiegirl]

Unattractive liberal hags running everything into the ground.

[dandiegirl]

Stefanik should have asked them if it was free speech to threaten BLM, trannies or any other of these groups and watched them squirm.

[cp124]

The Poison Ivy League is not what it use to be.

[rbg81]

Yeah—that is exactly what I said.

[rbg81]

Stefanik should have asked them if it was free speech to threaten BLM, trannies or any other of these groups and watched them squirm.

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I doubt they would squirm. They would just deny, deny, deny.

That’s why I don’t think anything will change on these campuses. Until maybe someone gets killed (which I think will eventually happen), but even then it’s 50/50.

[Liz]

Thanks for that.....you’re brilliant.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

While they are burning bridges with a lot of alumni and donors, it probably does not matter. Many Leftists and Arabs will step in to fill the donor void. Plus the Federal subsidies will keep flowing

 

Then they will be solidified as captured institutions, co-opted by adversarial powers and therefore no longer serving a legitimate purpose in this society. The social contract will be broken with them.