| Are Campuses a Target for Political Extremism? |
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Experts point to the 2017 “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Va., as a stark warning. They note that colleges and their personnel have long been targets for propaganda and harassment. Given the combustibility of political tempers in recent years, they say, higher education would be unwise to shrug off the possibility of something worse.
Managing Political Tensions examines why experts predict escalating political conflict in higher education and how the mainstreaming of fringe views heightens the peril of campus violence. It offers advice on how colleges can better monitor threats, discusses why communication with law-enforcement agencies and hate-group watchdogs is crucial, and presents curricular strategies to help protect students from radicalization.
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