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Issues That Concern Us
- Decline of academic standards
- Politicization of scholarship and teaching, and the
substitution of
social reform for the pursuit of knowledge
- Use of sexual, racial, or other criteria unrelated to
merit in hiring,
in promotion, and in student recruitment
- Denigration of great literary and artistic works
- Inappropriate use of sexual, racial, and other
nonscholarly criteria
in selecting works to be studied
- Dogmatic hostility to Western civilization, and turning
the study
of non-Western cultures into an instrument for denouncing
American society
- Unscholarly curricular innovations, which often supplant
substantive
and intellectually challenging courses
- Absence of core curricula or other requirements ensuring a
well-rounded
education
- Unfair treatment of colleagues suspected of holding
"politically incorrect"
views
- Use of noncurricular resources, such as orientations and
residential
life programs, to impose political and ideological
conformity on student
life
- Decline in civility on college and university campuses
- Suppression of students' freedoms of speech and
association
- Tendency of administrators to placate activists rather
than enforce
rules even-handedly
- Racial polarization on campuses; policies promoting
polarization
- Deleterious influence of low standards in higher education
on the
quality of education in the lower schools
- Inadequate preparation of high school graduates for
college work.
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