Jacob Shell:
….. but there is very little in the report explaining why this has been the trend. And you can’t solve a problem that you haven’t properly diagnosed.
Consider: academia would appear to have very good structures already in place (such as tenure and a host of free speech rules and traditions), for fostering intellectual diversity. The Yale Report vaguely acknowledges that over the 2010s in particular these structures failed. But it does not explain the failure other than to refer (vaguely) to issues like tuition costs and self-contradictory new institutional missions. I actually agree with the report that tuition and confused mission statements are relevant to the emergence of ideological groupthink. But it’s not clear just how this connection works–and at any rate, I think something deeper is bei