Wednesday, January 19, 2022

We Can't Have An Exchange Of Ideas Here, This Is A University!

This sounds nice, but I won't hold my breath:

Students’ tendency to overvalue perspectives based on experience over knowledge, facts and logic can harm classroom discourse and university culture, according to a new report penned by a group of bipartisan scholars and administrators.

To resolve this, professors should teach students to rely on discipline-based norms of evidence, “so that students are neither unfairly burdened with expectations to speak nor excluded because of their experience and identity.”

The advice was among several suggestions in the report, titled “Campus Free Expression: A New Roadmap,” a guide for college leaders to foster academic freedom and open debate.

1 comment:

PeggyU said...

As one of my favorite bloggers says,"university" is the opposite of "diversity".