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thepress.net | John Murawski
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Like the other programs launched at universities around the country to revive the classical liberal arts and America’s founding principles, the University of North Carolina’s School of Civic Life and Leadership has faced fierce antagonism from entrenched faculty and administrators. Mostly, the opposition comes from academics on the left who typically demean the push for traditional civics education as a rightwing enterprise.
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fairfieldsuntimes.com | John Murawski
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Like the other programs launched at universities around the country to revive the classical liberal arts and America’s founding principles, the University of North Carolina’s School of Civic Life and Leadership has faced fierce antagonism from entrenched faculty and administrators. Mostly, the opposition comes from academics on the left who typically demean the push for traditional civics education as a rightwing enterprise.
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wnd.com | John Murawski
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Like the other programs launched at universities around the country to revive the classical liberal arts and America’s founding principles, the University of North Carolina’s School of Civic Life and Leadership has faced fierce antagonism from entrenched faculty and administrators. Mostly, the opposition comes from academics on the left who typically demean the push for traditional civics education as a rightwing enterprise.
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wnd.com | John Murawski
In the plummy world of alumni relations, where distinguished graduates are awarded honorary degrees and major donors are fêted at the president’s mansion, it is virtually unheard of for former students to set up shop as a political counterweight to the university, challenging its modes of governance and day-to-day operations Alarmed by academia’s dominant ideological ethos of social justice activism – particularly the holy trinity of race, sex, and gender – more than two dozen dissident...
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businessandamerica.com | John Murawski
In the plummy world of alumni relations, where distinguished graduates are awarded honorary degrees and major donors are feted at the president’s mansion, it is virtually unheard of for former students to set up shop as a political counterweight to the university, challenging its modes of governance and day-to-day operations. Source link
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It is often said that academic turf battles are so vicious because the stakes are so low. The internal conflict at UNC Chapel Hill’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership shows that disagreements involving power and money in the ivory tower can make or break academic careers.
In RealClearInvestigations, John Murawski reports on a struggle among right-leaning academics over the University of North Carolina's new School of Civic Life and Leadership, one of the nation’s most ambitious efforts to revive free speech and traditional scholarship in academia:
Let’s not forget how past administrations abused federal power to exact compliance from universities. https://t.co/0ucTMdZpca
A timely description of academia’s activist protest culture actively branding itself as such to enthusiastic students.
@DiuCrone Thanks! Wrote about this dynamic more fully last year if you’re interested. https://t.co/URnVKB9Foq
