Colleges are potential targets of not just stepped-up rhetoric but also increased violence according to a number of criminologists, consultants, and scholars who study extremism. Given the combustibility of political tempers in recent years, experts are pointing to the 2017 “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville as a stark warning, and caution higher ed leaders not to shrug off the possibility of something worse occurring.
In
Managing Political Tensions,
The Chronicle interviewed several dozen experts on politics, extremism, hategroups, psychology, media, and civic literacy, campus security and policing, and risk management. Learn why they predict campus political conflict could accelerate amid a worrisomely volatile mix of societal ingredients and what warning signs colleges should be on the lookout for.
