No Lessons Learned: Campus Intolerance Intensifies in the Trump Era
Feb 13, 2017Alex ContarinoAlex Contarino6 Comments
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At this year’s Association of American Colleges and Universities meeting, held in late January in San Francisco, a sense of misgiving filled the conference hall.
Panelists raised, implicitly, the question whether higher education has become out of touch with Donald Trump’s America. They fretted over their belief that the current social and political climate is a threat to the liberal arts and, in a time of “fake news,” to the pursuit of truth itself.
The Association’s president, Lynn Pasquerella, concluded that it is the average American—giving in to the alleged anti-intellectualism of the day—who is misguided.
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/02/no-lessons-learned-campus-intolerance-intensifies-trump-era/
