Faculty Members at UC-Berkeley Wonder if Trump and Other Critics Have a Point

Faculty Members at UC-Berkeley Wonder if Trump and Other Critics Have a Point

It looks like some folks at the famously far-left school are having a moment of clarity.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

At UC Berkeley, the Faculty Asks Itself, Do Our Critics Have a Point?

President Trump’s second administration has targeted higher education with funding cuts, charging that colleges — particularly prestigious ones — have let antisemitism go unchecked and progressive ideology run amok.

The sector’s leaders have responded by weighing whether to give ground or fight back. Lingering inside that question is another uncomfortable one: Do Trump and his allies have a point?

At the University of California at Berkeley, two professors recently put a version of that query to their peers via survey. The results — obtained by The Chronicle — cut against the stereotype of Berkeley’s campus as an ultra-progressive monolith. Rather, they conveyed complicated feelings among a subset of the faculty about whether and where higher education has gone wrong, and how to course-correct if it has. While some respondents did not think Berkeley should recalibrate on certain issues because of Trump, they did think their university should recalibrate, period.

As one unnamed professor put it: “Over the years, I’ve been confronted by various scenarios that have caused me to mutter to myself, ‘This has gone way too far.’ Do we really have to acknowledge that we are holding a conference on stolen land when it takes place over Zoom?”

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