Academia is finally asking honest questions about what it has become and why. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a brutally honest op-ed about what went wrong in academia, entitled simply “We Asked for It.”
When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, dozens of university officials put out statements on the issue, but this time around, only a few have. Public opinion of the American higher education system has reached new lows, and the Trump administration has said it will take a scalpel to higher education.
In the article in the flagship magazine of American higher education, English professor Michael W. Clune recognizes that many academic disciplines have forgotten their original purpose in favor of political activism. Clune writes, “Professors began to see the traditional values and methods of their fields — such as the…
