Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The canary in the university

The whole episode at University of Missouri has been chilling for university leadership everywhere.  Who in the world will they find to lead that institution?

But Mizzou isn't the only canary in this particular coal mine.  There's the recent row at Yale over a couple of faculty members who suggested that maybe the administration's admonishment about Halloween costumes wouldn't be necessary if only students would talk to one another about issues:

The New Intolerance of Student Activism: A fight over Halloween costumes at Yale has devolved into an effort to censor dissenting views.

And the Yale incident is even more interesting in light of the Mizzou students' behavior toward the media, the involvement of faculty and staff, and the very swift fallout: