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Reply to "NY Times editorial: "Universities Like Yale Need a Reckoning""
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's one concrete step he proposes (and I couldn't agree more). [b]“We” need to openly recommit to learning and teaching about the whole of our knowledge — our histories, our literature, our sciences, our social structures, as much or more than we stress our racial, ethnic and gendered parts.[/b] Those fields of study are important and established for good reasons. But the whole and the parts have to sing together or there is no democracy or broad learning or informed citizenry in the end. We could drown in the habits of our own particularities and favorite ideologies, and lose hold of how humans connect across a multitude of difference. We need answers for our critics who believe we are an ideological monolith, whether they are right or not. We may not like universals anymore, but there are some, like elections, that stun millions into despair or glee.[/quote] I found that the least compelling part of the piece. Mostly because it presumes that the "solution" to the perception of places like Yale is the other academics stop doing their fields in the way that makes the most sense to them. He can disagree with that approach (if you know his work, you'll see that that emphasis on a unified American story is a big part of it), but ultimately if another historian looks at history and *doesn't* see it that way, they should feel free to work and teach the story that they see. I found the idea of a "moonshot" for public universities much more compelling. Yale simply isn't that important for most people and it never has been. Investing in the universities that are actually educating most people is a great idea, though.[/quote]
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