Corporate America Is Obsessed With Debate on Elite Campuses - Bloomberg

Corporate America Is Obsessed With Debate on Elite Campuses - Bloomberg

• The day Donald Trump was elected, the five-college Claremont campus east of Los Angeles went into mourning. 
• Maria Klawe, the president of Harvey Mudd College, sent out an email expressing sympathy for anyone feeling “vulnerable and unsafe.” 
• David Oxtoby, president of Pomona College, said, “On a day like this, the personal and the political cannot be separated.” 
• Pitzer College President Melvin Oliver urged students to channel energy into activism.

...A new study shows that 39 percent of the top U.S. liberal arts campuses haven’t a single Republican faculty member; at many others, the number is insignificant.
Its author, Mitchell Langbert of Brooklyn College, wrote: “Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference.”
...One thing all sides agree on is that what happens on elite campuses influences what happens in corporate America—even if the majority of students view the debate as background noise as they earn credentials and broaden their knowledge.
The battle over how much to protect students from potentially offensive speech is playing out more and more in companies as graduates of elite institutions bring their sensibilities to work..."
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