Quote of the Day: An Acknowledgment of the Sad State of Higher Ed in the US
Maranto, an associate professor of political science at Villanova University and co-editor of “Reforming the Politically Correct University,” to be published in 2008, on the lack of intellectual diversity on campus (HT Instapundit):
Ultimately, universities will have to clean their own houses. Professors need to re-embrace a culture of reasoned inquiry and debate. And since debate requires disagreement, higher education needs to encourage intellectual diversity in its hiring and promotion decisions with something like the fervor it shows for ethnic and racial diversity. It’s the only way universities will earn back society’s respect and reclaim their role at the center of public life.
The acknowledgment is that universities have lost society’s respect. Indeed they have. If all universities with walls went to distance learning and topic-focused education, who besides NCAA sports fans and far-left bitter-enders would miss them?
