"...they’re both interested in the same thing: smooth operations at any cost. Often that cost is the mission of the university itself."

Low Definition in Higher Education

When college students are told what to think and what not to say, who suffers in the end?

By Lyell Asher

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

"This covert consumerist ethos helps explain what otherwise seems especially incongruous about higher education in America today: how to square the putatively “progressive”—but in fact retrograde—imposition of speech codes, safe spaces, bias response teams, and the like on college campuses, with the simultaneous emphasis on commerce and entrepreneurship, an emphasis especially favored by the business-oriented boards of trustees. The answer is that they’re both interested in the same thing: smooth operations at any cost. Often that cost is the mission of the university itself."