Slow learning college presidents

Universities rely on alumnae for a significant part of their comparative advantage. Without outside funds, a lot of boutique, scholarship and "social justice" programs will suffer. Alums are waking up to the problems of wokeness on campus, demanding free speech as a precursor to their contributions. College presidents don't enjoy being called out on the problem they themselves created.

Alumni Withhold Donations, Demand Colleges Enforce Free Speech - WSJ.pdf

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I posted this comment to the above article, as follows:

“We’re living in an environment where people on both sides, right and left, are engaged in a culture war and they want to use universities,” he said. “I don’t find that beneficial to our mission and I’m not interested in being a participant in it.” Perhaps the most disingenuous statement I've ever read from a university president. And that is saying a lot. Hard to have a crossfire when you let the left disarm their critics. “A little intellectual humility is not a bad thing,” she said. So says the president of Davidson. Actually, it is a very bad thing. It's like asking the defenders to cease fire while their enemy keeps shooting and re-loading.

These grotesquely overpaid presidents play themselves a victims as well as the leaders of social justice experiments on campus. When a college puts diversity as their primary mission, education suffers. I've written about this before, here, here and here. And about the general loss of faith in traditional American institutions, like universities, the Catholic Church, congress and medicine.

Loyola is convening a two-year commission to serve as a confessional of sorts, having been accused of being part of the Georgetown/Jesuit slave-selling scandal that conveniently escaped notice on campus until a 'media source' found 'evidence' that Loyola might be guilty.