The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wednesday, October 4, 2006

A glance at the current issue of Academic Matters: Academic resistance to debate

Efforts to mandate increased intellectual diversity in academe distract from the true problem facing American campuses, writes Jonathan R. Cole, the provost and dean of faculties emeritus at Columbia University. Higher education's biggest concern, he says, is "the seeming unwillingness of most faculty members to engage...

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