The magnitude of its problems still eludes Yale
The 'obliviousness to their own serious shortcomings is a measure of how badly they have lost their way'
By
Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Wire
May 9, 2026
Reform of the nation's higher-education institutions – like reform of any undertaking or organization – comes in various shapes and sizes.
Colleges and universities can handle through more effective oversight a professor or an administrator who deviates from the institution's larger educational mission. Mounting departures from the institution's larger mission require more extensive reform. And colleges and universities that lose sight of their larger mission, forgetting its key educational components or outright supplanting educational goals with political ones, call for comprehensive reform.
Months of campus protests – including harassment, intimidation, and unlawful encampments – following Iran-backed Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter of and kidnapping of Israelis, mainly civilians, shocked many observers off campus. Few on campuses drew the reasonable conclusion that colleges and universities that educate students who are disposed to side with the enthusiastic, premeditated perpetration of mass atrocities demand far-reaching reform.
https://www.wnd.com/2026/05/magnitude-its-problems-still-eludes-yale/
