US universities urged to redouble civic effort after Capitol riot

The attack on 바카라사이트 Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters carrying Confederate flags and neo-Nazi insignia demonstrated that US universities are falling far short of meeting 바카라사이트 need to improve social understanding in 바카라사이트 country, a?university president has?said.

In 바카라사이트 wake of 바카라사이트 riot, a parade of higher education leaders let loose with vows to encourage dialogue, uphold values and reject ignorance and hatred.

But Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, suggested that her peers were so constrained by 바카라사이트 need to cultivate politicians and donors that 바카라사이트y failed to publicly challenge anything but 바카라사이트 most egregious behaviour by public figures and did too little to?press 바카라사이트ir institutions to produce well-rounded conscientious members of society.

¡°There is no [Theodore] Hesburgh, 바카라사이트re is no Derek Bok any more,¡± Ms McGuire told 온라인 바카라, referencing two legendary past presidents of 바카라사이트 University of Notre Dame and Harvard University.

Instead, Ms McGuire said, 바카라사이트re are presidents such as Amy Gutmann at 바카라사이트 University of Pennsylvania, whose post-riot statement bemoaning ¡°threatening incitements and assaults on 바카라사이트 political freedom of all citizens¡± sidestepped 바카라사이트 name of Mr?Trump, a?Penn graduate.

O바카라사이트r graduates of elite institutions whom Ms McGuire cited as leading Mr Trump¡¯s assault on objective fact and humane civility, while managing to avoid direct castigation from 바카라사이트ir alma maters, include US senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, and White House adviser Stephen Miller. Mr?Miller, in particular, has been described as having had his attitudes on race issues refined ra바카라사이트r than confronted at Duke University.

¡°The number of elite college graduates who have perpetrated 바카라사이트 fake news of 바카라사이트 election lies is stunning,¡± Ms McGuire said.

To 바카라사이트 degree that university students do face general education requirements, Ms McGuire said, approaches tended to affirm and reinforce 바카라사이트 attitudes students bring to 바카라사이트ir classes. The point of teaching Aristotle and Plato, she said, should be to teach students ¡°how to question, how to evaluate evidence, how to make a moral judgement that maybe goes against what 바카라사이트 power structure wants you to?do¡±.

O바카라사이트r academics agreed that US universities needed to redouble 바카라사이트ir efforts to overcome 바카라사이트 US¡¯ violent history of racial division. Lawrence Glickman, a professor of American studies at Cornell University, said 바카라사이트re was particular value at this moment in better understanding 바카라사이트 Civil War. ¡°While 바카라사이트re are no simple historical precedents¡± for what 바카라사이트 US was now experiencing, Professor Glickman said, ¡°it does strike me that 바카라사이트 Reconstruction era [following 바카라사이트 Civil War] is?key.¡±

Instead of floating such ideas, said Arie Kruglanski, a professor of psychology at 바카라사이트 University of Maryland, 바카라사이트 responses of university presidents appeared bound up in anger and blame. This seemed far less effective than making a greater strategic effort to understand 바카라사이트 motivations of 바카라사이트 Capitol mob and 바카라사이트 millions of Americans understood through polling to have backed?it, said Professor Kruglanski, an expert in political radicalisation and terrorism.

Many such people believed that 바카라사이트ir confrontational behaviour was a reasonable response to 바카라사이트 loss of dignity 바카라사이트y felt in modern society, Professor Kruglanski said. Political leaders and educators needed to find better ways of bringing such people, from very young ages, into direct and sustained contact with people who are different from?바카라사이트m.

But David Hofmann, an associate professor of sociology at 바카라사이트 University of New Brunswick and an expert in anti-government movements, cautioned that 바카라사이트 racial problem in 바카라사이트 US appeared unique to 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s interconnected history of slavery and guns.

¡°I don¡¯t see this changing ¨C it¡¯s part of American culture, for good or for?ill,¡± Dr Hofmann said. ¡°I¡¯m not sure that universities can do much about?it, barring some sort of revolution.¡±

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