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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
A good friend of mine from high school has been taking on the ivory tower for some time. He's been interviewed on CNN and Fox News as the founder and director of a foundation that fights censorship in the name of being "politically correct" on university campuses.  |
MOO, the most effective ways to affect change in the Ivory Tower are (1) to make sure that junior high and high school students acquire the skills and confidence they will need to define their educational needs, and (2) let academics continue to have the increasingly energetic debates over higher education that are take place in the open (if one knows where to look).
IMO, treating academics as a monolithic group is the opposite of "divide and conquer." As an example, Howard Gillman, who built his career at USC, is the type of academic who is going to call BS on excessive asshattery in the Ivory Tower but will be among the most capable defenders of academics.