Beware Rationalizations for Leaving Universities as They Are

Those paying attention over, say, the previous 40 years know that American colleges and universities long ago departed from their core mission, which is to provide undergraduates a liberal education and to foster scholarship driven by the disinterested pursuit of the truth. The public, however, has been inclined to downplay reports of faculty and administration misconduct: censorship; kangaroo courts for those accused of sexual misconduct; progressive indoctrination laced throughout the humanities and social sciences; and abandonment of basic courses in American ideas and institutions,…