40 percent of liberal professors are afraid they'll lose their jobs over a misunderstanding
Samuel J. Abramsreason.com
40 percent of liberal professors are afraid they'll lose their jobs over a misunderstanding
Frank Donoghue, the author of The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, writes that liberal arts education has been systemically dismantled for decades. Any form of learning not strictly vocational has at best been marginalized and in many schools abolished. Students are steered away from asking the broad, distur
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