What happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College (before he became a pundit speaking far outside his subject area) is now happening to everyone. There is less and less room for a Weinstein or a Thomas Sowell in American academia.
It’s my belief that this coerced monoculture of identity politics and ideology will significantly degrade the quality of American universities, to say nothing of K-12 education. The long term effects on American economic competitiveness and the ability to attract foreign students will be severe.
Given the perverse incentives of US university funding, this ride only ends when Chinese and Indian grad students look elsewhere and the federal government turns off the guaranteed loans faucet. I don’t see the latter happening without dramatic political upheaval. Until then, colleges will continue not caring whether they’re preparing students well for the workforce or merely puffing them full of the latest political buzzwords.
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What happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College (before he became a pundit speaking far outside his subject area) is now happening to everyone. There is less and less room for a Weinstein or a Thomas Sowell in American academia.
It’s my belief that this coerced monoculture of identity politics and ideology will significantly degrade the quality of American universities, to say nothing of K-12 education. The long term effects on American economic competitiveness and the ability to attract foreign students will be severe.
Given the perverse incentives of US university funding, this ride only ends when Chinese and Indian grad students look elsewhere and the federal government turns off the guaranteed loans faucet. I don’t see the latter happening without dramatic political upheaval. Until then, colleges will continue not caring whether they’re preparing students well for the workforce or merely puffing them full of the latest political buzzwords.