I'm a little flummoxed by this post/direction of response in The Ink today. I get it, this week has been over-full, and perhaps you needed content, but are we really going to look to academia for clues about the way out of this debacle? And, also, could we highlight someone who isn't a male figurehead of a slice of society that is very much still entrenched in patriarchal structures of governance and job security? I'm not getting it.
The newsletter will be posting a bunch of these short conversations — a very loose series — with people who've done interviews previously, not necessarily looking for a single way out of anything, but a variety of viewpoints on what the next few years are likely to look like and what avenues exist to work towards rebuilding. Education is likely to come under serious pressure in the new administration, and Roth is one of the very few in a leadership position who've been speaking and writing about (and acting in) higher education specifically in terms of its duty to expand democracy, so we reached out for some comments. There will be plenty on a whole range of specifics coming, so hopefully you will find some of these useful!
It's hard to imagine college campuses today for someone who went there in the early 70's. I give students the right to protest, that's fundamental, but I have to question their logic for some of the issues they protest.
Recently I saw a post by Aaron Rupar with an TV interview of a female college student whose reason for supporting Trump was he would protect abortion. I don't want to call it ignorance but can't find another word for believing the opposite of the truth. College students should be able to hold opinions conservative and/or liberal, but it bodes ill for us if their options are not truth/fact based.
I'm a little flummoxed by this post/direction of response in The Ink today. I get it, this week has been over-full, and perhaps you needed content, but are we really going to look to academia for clues about the way out of this debacle? And, also, could we highlight someone who isn't a male figurehead of a slice of society that is very much still entrenched in patriarchal structures of governance and job security? I'm not getting it.
The newsletter will be posting a bunch of these short conversations — a very loose series — with people who've done interviews previously, not necessarily looking for a single way out of anything, but a variety of viewpoints on what the next few years are likely to look like and what avenues exist to work towards rebuilding. Education is likely to come under serious pressure in the new administration, and Roth is one of the very few in a leadership position who've been speaking and writing about (and acting in) higher education specifically in terms of its duty to expand democracy, so we reached out for some comments. There will be plenty on a whole range of specifics coming, so hopefully you will find some of these useful!
Agree about looking forward. Both parties had a role in bringing us to where we are now. I also believe our way back is educating young people.
It's hard to imagine college campuses today for someone who went there in the early 70's. I give students the right to protest, that's fundamental, but I have to question their logic for some of the issues they protest.
Recently I saw a post by Aaron Rupar with an TV interview of a female college student whose reason for supporting Trump was he would protect abortion. I don't want to call it ignorance but can't find another word for believing the opposite of the truth. College students should be able to hold opinions conservative and/or liberal, but it bodes ill for us if their options are not truth/fact based.