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I think the misunderstanding here is that there is no campaign of 'indoctrination' -- rather both are caused by the same phenomenon. As universities increasing
by mjburgess 3y ago
I think the misunderstanding here is that there is no campaign of 'indoctrination' -- rather both are caused by the same phenomenon.
As universities increasingly operate like businesses, their administrations create business cultures -- stage-managed PR, no 'offense', etc.
The issue in both cases is that universities are supposed to operate outside usual market forces and be run for the sake of inquiry, to the (very long run) benefit of society.
There's a lot of irony in right wing people decrying allegedly 'left wing' campus policies which are none other than the symptom of applications of a right wing economic agenda.
Such is the irony always here with market solutions proffered by people with values: market mechanisms do not operate on values; and without regulatory floors, tend to dispense with them rapidly.
This is what has happened to universities over the last decade: the throwing away of high-risk, low-(market)-reward institutional values