What tends to go unexamined is how campuses themselves communicate day to day, and what that teaches students about how information is supposed to move.
Self-examination is essential. But the premise of a single, unified higher education system in need of homogeneous reform is fundamentally flawed because no such monolith exists.
Many believe that what art and design schools teach is peripheral. But the serious business of today's economy has now circled back to these institutions.
Education in recent years has been the battleground for culture war disputes from immigration to transgender rights along with political posturing on issues like student loan forgiveness, admissions practices and free speech on campus.
Liberal arts units at STEM institutions are often adaptive, ready to innovate, conversant with the culture of tech fields and comfortable aligning their scholarship with colleagues in different disciplines.
