We Can Not Give Up on Research Universities

While America’s research universities have become ideological monoliths and have failed to deliver sound liberal education, Warren Treadgold rejects conservative calls to abolish or move resources away from them. Treadgold believes the problem of politically conformist universities are the result of fifty years of corrupted hiring policies. To save the schools, Treadgold proposes a whole new system by which faculty and staff can be drawn from a broader and more balanced pool of candidates.