Real Clear Politics has a jeremiad by historian Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution who tackles the question “Are Universities Doomed?” His conclusion is that they well may be exactly that.
Indoctrination has replaced critical thinking, administrators have replaced faculty, catering to victim groups has replaced meritorious admissions, and in the student body women have replaced men. None of these trends, he argues, is likely to help universities survive.
As individuals who spent their working lives in universities, the DrsC are happy we worked in an earlier era and retired before the current situation got so negative. Neither of us believes we’d be happy in the current academic environment, which has become rancid.
