Is Higher Education even interested in reform?

A new featured article by the AAUP calls viewpoint diversity anathema to academic freedom. - Greg Lukianoff, Samuel J. Abrams, and Adam Goldstein


No institution better embodies that reflex than the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). 

Under its current leadership — President Todd Wolfson, who frames criticism of academia as part of “right-wing forces… striving to dismantle our institutions” — the AAUP has responded to legitimate calls for reform with a mix of denial and deflection...

This brings us to the latest entry in AAUP’s recent history of dodging reform: the lead essay in its flagship magazine, Academe. 

It’s titled “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity,” written by Lisa Siraganian, and it’s an unintentional masterclass in how to lose the moral high ground.