College Campuses, Academic Freedom, and the Searing , Virile, Intense, Battles Facing Higher Education!

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis
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4 min readApr 8, 2024

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Debates about events that occur on college campuses have frequently been seen as tools for partisan politics. More recently, they have been employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual democratization that has occurred in higher education since the 1950s. Those of us who are academics and see education as…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.