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IDENTIFYING A WISE UNIVERSITY
Five questions alumni, parents, college counselors, and prospective students should ask universities:
1. What steps do you take (if any) to teach incoming students about academic freedom and free inquiry before they take their first classes?
2. How would you handle a demand that a professor be fired because of an opinion he or she expressed in the article or interview, which other people found deeply offensive?
3. What would your institution do if a controversial
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In practice, the bar has been lowered; many universities use the concept of harassment to justify punishing one-time utterances that could be construed as offensive but don't really look anything like harassment
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― The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
― The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
