Not the least bit surprising. The failure to balance reporting and the slow move toward "advocacy journalism" fueled the rise of Foxnews. The direction of higher education appears to be doing the same thing here. It will be interesting where this goes. I have to say, their timing is spot on.
"We are alarmed by the illiberalism and censoriousness prevalent in America's most prestigious universities," the University of Austin's website says.
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"Trigger warnings. Safe spaces. Preferred pronouns. Checked privileges. Microaggressions. Antiracism. All these terms are routinely deployed on campuses throughout the English-speaking world as part of a sustained campaign to impose ideological conformity in the name of diversity," Ferguson wrote. "As a result, it often feels as if there is less free speech and free thought in the American university today than in almost any other institution in the U.S."