Higher education: Self-development, Career preparation, or Social Activism as Priority Goal?

This documents a huge shift in one generation. HERI is the Higher Education Research Institute. It asks faculty what their top educational goals are. Candidates: Individual self-development, becoming a well-rounded person, learning to think and judge for oneself, career preparation, becoming a social-change agent, and so on.

In 1990, only about 20% of faculty said social change was their high priority. That percentage quadrupled in one generation. By 2015—when suddenly everyone was aware of ‘Woke’ and ‘Culture War’—80% of faculty were saying training students to be social activists was their high priority. The ‘money’ paragraph:

Related: The near-in-history intellectual roots of the social activist university:

And the deeper intellectual history of the social-activist university:

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