What Can We Do About Our Corrupted Universities?

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WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT OUR CORRUPTED UNIVERSITIES?


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✍️ The article discusses the decline of universities and the rise of 'social justice' ideology, which has led to the erosion of academic standards and the promotion of grievance studies.
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👉 The Enlightenment-inspired higher education has been replaced by a new vision of 'social justice'
👉 Grievance studies have become popular and prestigious fields
👉 Intersectionality grants multiple victimhood credits to individuals who can claim membership in two or more victim groups
👉 Universities have become more like convents than houses of education
👉 The 'social justice' cult has led to the destruction of universities

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#LionelShriver #AntiochCollege #UniversityofChicago #McGillUniversity #Canada #UnitedStates #education
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quoting nevent1q…ngwu

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The Enlightenment-inspired higher education that I encountered during my 1958-72 studies at Antioch College and the University of Chicago, and at McGill University for much of the time when I was a professor there beginning in 1968, was conceived as a quest for the truth. The means for this quest was an evidence and argument process in which questioning and debating evidence and inferences were meant to elicit the soundest, the nearest-to-reality understandings about the world.
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