Robert Kraft: Campus leaders must show courage and stop radical professors from poisoning young minds
NY Post
When I enrolled in Columbia, it was on a full academic scholarship.
It helped make me who I am today — it allowed me to grow, learn and be successful as I set out into the world.
Without the opportunity I was given, I would not have been able to attend college and learn from professors that encouraged students to cultivate independent thought and the ability to engage critically with diverse viewpoints.
Today, the attention and visuals surrounding the hateful protests taking place on Columbia’s campus have been focused on the students, but the students have been taught and empowered by faculty more focused on politics than they are on education.
These are not the professors I had who exemplified the fundamental principles underpinning the mission of higher education in the United States.
Those principles were what set our academic institutions apart from the rest of the world and gave America a distinct competitive advantage.
