The left has responded to President Trump’s efforts to combat campus anti-Semitism and DEI by warning that these efforts are a threat to academic freedom, the lifeblood of genuine education.
It can't be done with a light touch. To end this nightmare essentially every college humanities and social sciences department would have to be eliminated wholesale and rebuilt. Particularly any department that ends with "studies". Those will have to be trashed and not rebuilt. Administrations will have to be committed to the idea that faculty will not be allowed to feed Marxist propaganda to students. Its a huge job. Academic freedom at this point is non existent. Originally intended to prevent government interference with teaching it now permits communists to indoctrinate young minds to hate their country (And Jews and Israel of course). It will also be necessary to vet any faculty particularly foreign faculty and it will be necessary to ban foreign countries, particularly Qatar and China from giving money to the colleges. Not a task that can be accomplished with a light touch.
They key will be the continued pressure y this administration and those to come to eradicate DEI. Parents and students are beginning to realize what a detriment this perverse ideology is to students and society. We are already seeing reductions in enrollment in 4 year colleges. The promotion of “college for everyone” and federally insured student loans allowed marginal professors to have worthless jobs and pour garbage into young minds while colleges could raise tuition rates and hire ever more administrative staff. Hammer or soft touch, eliminate this disease.
I don't think it's likely a "light touch" will be sufficient. But one can always hope. This toxic environment is deeply entrenched within academia, and it's been increasing over time creating an echo chamber rather than a place for serious, wide-ranging inquiry. The study to which you refer shows the logical result. Also, I suspect that the quality of scholarship has plummeted as this has evolved.
It can't be done with a light touch. To end this nightmare essentially every college humanities and social sciences department would have to be eliminated wholesale and rebuilt. Particularly any department that ends with "studies". Those will have to be trashed and not rebuilt. Administrations will have to be committed to the idea that faculty will not be allowed to feed Marxist propaganda to students. Its a huge job. Academic freedom at this point is non existent. Originally intended to prevent government interference with teaching it now permits communists to indoctrinate young minds to hate their country (And Jews and Israel of course). It will also be necessary to vet any faculty particularly foreign faculty and it will be necessary to ban foreign countries, particularly Qatar and China from giving money to the colleges. Not a task that can be accomplished with a light touch.
They key will be the continued pressure y this administration and those to come to eradicate DEI. Parents and students are beginning to realize what a detriment this perverse ideology is to students and society. We are already seeing reductions in enrollment in 4 year colleges. The promotion of “college for everyone” and federally insured student loans allowed marginal professors to have worthless jobs and pour garbage into young minds while colleges could raise tuition rates and hire ever more administrative staff. Hammer or soft touch, eliminate this disease.
I don't think it's likely a "light touch" will be sufficient. But one can always hope. This toxic environment is deeply entrenched within academia, and it's been increasing over time creating an echo chamber rather than a place for serious, wide-ranging inquiry. The study to which you refer shows the logical result. Also, I suspect that the quality of scholarship has plummeted as this has evolved.