As you say, the university's basic mission has always been to discover and disseminate (teach) knowledge, till recently, that is. Now, it seems, many of them, and particularly so in the US, have -- quietly, without publicly announcing their altered course -- reinvented themselves as institutions on a mission to IMPROVE THE WORLD. What is…
As you say, the university's basic mission has always been to discover and disseminate (teach) knowledge, till recently, that is. Now, it seems, many of them, and particularly so in the US, have -- quietly, without publicly announcing their altered course -- reinvented themselves as institutions on a mission to IMPROVE THE WORLD. What is more, their conception of what that means in practical terms is entirely beholden to the partisan politics of the left, as implemented in DEI activism. The consequences of this for research and teaching are, as you say, catastrophic.
As you say, the university's basic mission has always been to discover and disseminate (teach) knowledge, till recently, that is. Now, it seems, many of them, and particularly so in the US, have -- quietly, without publicly announcing their altered course -- reinvented themselves as institutions on a mission to IMPROVE THE WORLD. What is more, their conception of what that means in practical terms is entirely beholden to the partisan politics of the left, as implemented in DEI activism. The consequences of this for research and teaching are, as you say, catastrophic.