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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: 0s | 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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insane_dreamer ◴[03 Apr 25 19:03 UTC] No.43573925[source]▶
> not the university culture I remember.

that's because universities are now businesses first, research institutions second, and academic institutions third

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1. red_admiral ◴[03 Apr 25 21:02 UTC] No.43575364[source]▶
This point gets to the heart of the matter. The more I look into it, everything else seems downstream from this.