Universities Anachronistic, Need Reform

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Employment rates for college graduates are dismal. Aggregate student debt is staggering. But university administrative salaries are soaring. The campus climate of tolerance has utterly disappeared. Only the hard sciences and graduate schools have salvaged American universities' international reputations.
For over two centuries, our superb system of American public and private higher education kept pace with radically changing times and so ensured our prosperity and reinforced democratic pluralism.
But a funny thing has happened on the way to the 21st century. Colleges that were once our most enlightened and tolerant institutions became America's dinosaurs.
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Universities claim they are committed to creating a student body that looks like America. In fact, they deliberately ignore the most important diversity of all -- thought. About half the country is fairly conservative. Yet by any measure -- faculty profiles, campus speakers, student organizations -- colleges discriminate against those not deemed sufficiently progressive.
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Either higher education will give up its medieval privileges, begin to be accountable and live in the modern world, or it will be reduced to a costly relic for a tiny elite.
An aging campus generation that has nearly wrecked the university should bow out and let more open-minded and innovative minds repair the damage that the old generation has wrought.

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Jewish World Review

June 6, 2014 / 8 Sivan, 5774
The troubling plight of the modern university
By Victor Davis Hanson