Amid horror stories about speech codes, grade inflation, and political correctness run amok on college campuses across the country, there’s been one major positive development in recent years: the emergence of independent academic centers. The more than 150 centers focus on topics such as history, economics, and politics in a traditionally objective manner.
Jay Schalin, director of policy analysis at the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, highlighted those centers during a presentation Monday for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
His speech covered themes from his recent Pope Center report Renewal in the University. In the video clip below, Schalin suggests a key reason for the centers’ growth in the recent years.
Click here to watch the full 39:36 presentation.