This Week in Higher Ed

This Week
in Higher Ed

 

This week's must-read: The authoritarian threat is growing. The old playbook won’t work.

By Lee C. Bollinger

The American university remains the standard for the world. Some of the most talented individuals from around the globe spend their lives as professors on American campuses working to discover new knowledge and introduce the next generation to accomplishments of the human mind.

But this moment has brought severe and unprecedented challenges to its continued viability — indeed, to its very existence. The most immediate threats come, of course, from our own federal government.

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