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The state of higher education

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  1. Os Trigonum

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    link will work for everyone

    Harvard Explores New Center for Conservative Scholarship Amid Trump Attacks
    The Ivy League school has discussed an effort to ‘support viewpoint diversity’ with potential donors, says it ‘will not be partisan’

    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/educati...a?st=RVPxNk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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    Central to changing campus culture is controlling who is hired and what they teach. Harvard President Garber has said the school won’t cede that authority. An institute would open the possibility of hiring new faculty focused on classically liberal ideas which, on many of today’s campuses, are often read as conservative. Those ideas, in turn, could reinvigorate debate, which even Harvard administrators say has atrophied.
    more at the link
     
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    @Salvy
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    so a normal scholarship for kids with good grades and a high SAT score
     
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