Higher education hasn’t learned its lesson. My university proves it

Forget “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” In higher education, what happens at Yale, stays at Yale.

This spring, the Ivy League school made waves by issuing a report on “trust in higher education.” The faculty-led review was unsparing, finding that Yale had acceded to “pressures toward conformity, intimidation, and social shaming.” The report urged every department to confront its “intellectual and methodological commitments,” the “range of scholarly approaches represented on its faculty,” and “the diversity of perspectives in its curriculum.” The authors also urged Yale to gauge whether the school is willing to hire and admit people with “dissenting or underrepresented traditions.”