Over the past few years, there has been a spate of media accounts exposing unconstitutional restrictions on free speech and debate on our country’s campuses. From university speech codes and commencement speaker “dis-invitations” to overt ideological indoctrination in the classrooms, our colleges and universities, whose defining mission is the free, nonpartisan quest for truth, are instead becoming prisons of conformism, devoid of the Socratic vision from which liberal education originated.
Yale Finally Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Yale’s Committee on “Trust in Higher Education” just released what higher-education reformers have to view as a remarkable document. It addresses the ongoing erosion of public trust in America’s universities. In doing so, it owns up to the self-censorship, extreme faculty political homogeneity, grade hyperinflation, administrative bloat, and the opaqueness of “holistic” admissions. For an...