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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swarthmore's values seem to be eroding in real time. An institution that once celebrated activism, free inquiry, and dissent is now disciplining students for speech, expanding surveillance, rewriting conduct rules to restrict protest, and creating a climate of fear around political expression.

Faculty are warning that students are being taught one set of principles in the classroom—critical thinking, open debate, intellectual rigor—and another outside it: stay quiet, stay vague, and don't challenge authority. If that's true, Swarthmore isn't just failing its stated values; it's actively betraying them.

The question is simple: when did protecting institutional image become more important than protecting free expression?
[url]https://swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2026/4/30/the-college-needs-a-reset-a-letter-from-faculty[/url][/quote]

The universities have rapidly allowed far left thought police to pervade ever facet of education.  It seems to have passed the point of no return from 2018 to 2025.

I wish our kids could experience 1990s college.  [/quote]
I don’t. The world is progressing. Catch up or fall behind.[/quote]

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