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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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450 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.309s | source
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JKCalhoun ◴[03 Apr 25 13:06 UTC] No.43569036[source]▶
Wild that he is some kind of exception. Rolling over, folding is not the university culture I remember.
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rincebrain ◴[03 Apr 25 13:16 UTC] No.43569162[source]▶
There wasn't, historically, the level of enormous potential negative consequences legally and practically if the universities talked back.

Universities, like many institutions, have also become more like large incumbent businesses than previously - e.g. perpetuating their own existence over having strong core values.

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1. toddmorey ◴[03 Apr 25 13:44 UTC] No.43569545[source]▶
This is really well articulated. It's like how a company uses fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to justify a pivot away from some kind of principled stance.