The shadowy conservative group’s playbook reveals the breadth and depth of its efforts. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” says an expert on student government.
The program’s longtime coordinator, described as having created a “toxic” atmosphere of psychological abuse and discrimination against women, has retired.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign retired its Native American mascot, Chief Illiniwek, more than a decade ago. Its staying power has prompted the chancellor, Robert Jones, to put on a series of “critical conversations.”
The American Council on Education found that nearly all of the college presidents it surveyed, when asked to choose, would prefer allowing students to be exposed to many types of speech rather than protecting them by prohibiting speech.
Last year Western Governors University was hit by a federal audit that said its teaching model didn’t provide enough interaction between students and instructors. Now, with its federal student aid on the line, it cites a Gallup survey as evidence that its approach works.
Teaching is the main source of faculty burnout. So doesn’t it follow that our teaching — and our students’ learning — will suffer the more stressed and exhausted we become?
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