Ohmann, Richard. “To Reform the Academy.” Saturday Review 54, (1971): 54-55.

Abstract:

[In the following essay, Ohmann faults Degradation of the Academic Dogma for blaming the politicization of American universities on post-World War II political developments rather than late-nineteenth-century educational reforms.]

How should colleges and universities deal with student unrest and the other stresses that afflict them?

A: “They must restore legitimate authority, mainly that of the faculty, and enforce traditional, and proper, standards of intellectual achievement.”

B: “Nonsense. That’s what got us in trouble…

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