American universities are being attacked, and I do not mean President Donald Trump.
The biggest threat faces Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Colombia and others – the foundations of the floors that they belong to before the establishment of the United States – from within, from the higher active thugs on their idealism.
But this is not a reason to abandon them completely, or to burn them on the ground.
Those who took them and returned them in the leftist left -wing ideological lands do not possess; They are just squatting.
These schools are the oldest institutions of our nation, as our founders are counted among their graduates, as they work for centuries as rulers of our culture, messages and arts.
Once they support a task to pride and transfer the ideals of Western civilization. This is their legacy and value.
These protectors can be again.
The administrative uprising and active thinkers have acquired these universities, but the bones of the intellectual investigation and academic accuracy should still be recovered.
We cannot give up on the barbarians who only mocked gates to sabotage universities, literally and metaphorically.
The task of our schools was well understood: preserving American culture, teaching what is good in us, and constantly asking what we believe in and why, so that we can rule our thoughts and not judge them.
Universities must graduate the future leaders who think critically, who do not rule it for ideology.
Some new schools have appeared in recent years, including the University of Austin. It was launched by Free Press' Bari Weiss and other rebel thinkers, and it is characterized by enormous faculty members “dedicated to seeking fear for the truth.”
In 2010, Rallston College in Savana, Georgia, focuses on classics as “reviving and re -invention of the traditional university.”
Other colleges have been reshaped, such as the New Florida College, a one -day school that now bearing itself “teaching free and professional thinkers and corridors” through the Marqarbout and classic curricula.
The College of Helzel in Michigan, which was founded in 1844, did not open its mission of students' rise to autonomy through education.
Children associated with the college today are more conservative than their ancestors. Those who are looking for higher education are likely to tend to school that will not try to shame or reshape.
The institutions that responded to this warning will survive; Those who will not fall.
Even our most famous universities do not pass the test.
Ivies, legendary public school system, and others multiply a mission to educate American students in the models of activists from speech and lifestyle, and export that spirit worldwide.
All of these schools are investigated by the Trump administration, reduce their funding or under review.
Faculty members may scare the alleged violations of freedom of expression, but these professors themselves walked with every new active ideology that came on their way.
However, combating persecution, raising victims and implanting ideology is not the role of academic circles.
These institutions have one job: involve students in a critical understanding of their nation and their civilization, to investigate what we believe in and why.
Academic inquiries cannot be threatened with difficult questions, just enhanced.
Our historical universities must reshape itself.
First of all, they can take some directives from Trump's demands – if only their federal financing is adhered to.
But to stay leaders of thought and maintain the value of their degrees that were required once, they must do more.
They should get rid of excessive administrative employees to reduce budgets, reduce tuition fees, survey active professors from the departments of humanities, and abandon studies in persecution.
They must put American students first for admission, scholarships, fellowships, and focus on merit – grades and initiative, not identity or ideology.
They should abandon the demands of thought in thought and introduce students to great deeds in the past, the history of ideas, religions and nations.
Our best universities must encourage students to understand the foundations of Western civilization, what makes them distinctive and why they should live.
We do not need to destroy the great institutions that we have built. We need to return them from the pillars who wander around these holy halls.
New York Police expelled the occupier from Hamilton Hall in Colombia in 2024. Now it is up to America's scientists and thinkers to end the mission.
Libby Emmons is the editor -in -chief in the post -millennium.
