As a graduate of Williams, I am not surprised. Williams has really devolved from a top-ranked academic institution into a left-wing propaganda outfit. The change is extremely recent, less than 10 years old. And I saw the beginnings of this while I was a student pursuing social sciences there. The only shock here is that there were any pr…
As a graduate of Williams, I am not surprised. Williams has really devolved from a top-ranked academic institution into a left-wing propaganda outfit. The change is extremely recent, less than 10 years old. And I saw the beginnings of this while I was a student pursuing social sciences there. The only shock here is that there were any professors left who would say anything about this issue. The hard sciences at Williams and other liberal arts colleges have always thought they were exempt from the excesses of the social sciences. That was naive and comes from a mistaken belief that professors should only do research and teach. They just silo’d themselves and their departments away from involvement in student life, administrative duties and from other departments on campus. By doing so, they exempted themselves from the conversation and allowed more radical ideas to gain a serious foothold. This has led to unqualified hires for professors and administrators and the acceptance of an ever-more radical, less heterodox student body. And now they have no choice but to obey the new orthodoxy or leave.
My theory is that Williams and other schools are in a positive feedback loop that will spiral out of control. What will stop the madness is the loss of prestige, declines in enrollment and the decline of the school’s endowment (which are all already happening and expected to worsen).
I had a great fondness for my school, which has been seriously tainted by the last several years. It’s just not the place it used to be. I wouldn’t send my kids to Williams or any similar school and I refuse to give money or participate in alumni events.
"My theory is that Williams and other schools are in a positive feedback loop that will spiral out of control. What will stop the madness is the loss of prestige, declines in enrollment and the decline of the school’s endowment..."
As a graduate of Williams, I am not surprised. Williams has really devolved from a top-ranked academic institution into a left-wing propaganda outfit. The change is extremely recent, less than 10 years old. And I saw the beginnings of this while I was a student pursuing social sciences there. The only shock here is that there were any professors left who would say anything about this issue. The hard sciences at Williams and other liberal arts colleges have always thought they were exempt from the excesses of the social sciences. That was naive and comes from a mistaken belief that professors should only do research and teach. They just silo’d themselves and their departments away from involvement in student life, administrative duties and from other departments on campus. By doing so, they exempted themselves from the conversation and allowed more radical ideas to gain a serious foothold. This has led to unqualified hires for professors and administrators and the acceptance of an ever-more radical, less heterodox student body. And now they have no choice but to obey the new orthodoxy or leave.
My theory is that Williams and other schools are in a positive feedback loop that will spiral out of control. What will stop the madness is the loss of prestige, declines in enrollment and the decline of the school’s endowment (which are all already happening and expected to worsen).
I had a great fondness for my school, which has been seriously tainted by the last several years. It’s just not the place it used to be. I wouldn’t send my kids to Williams or any similar school and I refuse to give money or participate in alumni events.
"My theory is that Williams and other schools are in a positive feedback loop that will spiral out of control. What will stop the madness is the loss of prestige, declines in enrollment and the decline of the school’s endowment..."
Theory seems 100% to me.