I'm a professor at an Ivy League institution and I think about Ivy League institutions about a tenth as much as the editors of major media outlets do. I'm begging you, for the love of God: Touch grass. Somewhere *other* than Harvard Yard.
Seriously. I don’t teach at an Ivy but did my doctorate there and couldn’t give less of a damn about what’s going on at Columbia or the rest of them. The media fixation is preposterous.
I’m just embarrassed MIT has gotten lumped into an Ivy League controversy.
I will be happy to stop caring about the Ivy League when less than approximately 100% of high-ranking government officials are drawn from the Ivy League.
I think we should pick a different college athletic conference at random every five years and nationally obsess about the day to day goings on at those schools, then move on. I vote for the ACC first (as an ACC member school alum). Maybe do a D-III conference after that, for balance.
The only Ivy league I ever think about is Terwilliker-williker institute with it's poison ivy covered halls. ;)
If only Florida higher ed existed for these people. Or North Carolina. Or anywhere else. www.aaup.org/report/repor...
And half of the time you think about it, it's wondering why they can't have better food in the dining commons
Amen. Time for some stories about any of the superb state universities and land-grant colleges.
Kevin I have terrible news. It appears to have spread. American universities face a reckoning over academic freedom www.economist.com/united-state... from The Economist
Their treatment of antisemitism is exposing wider inconsistencies when it comes to free speech