In December, Inside Higher Education published a profile of the new School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The essay examines the research specialties and intellectual affiliations of several faculty who had been hired for this new school, all with the aim of answering the question: “Has Chapel Hill’s ‘Civic Life’ School Become a Conservative Center?” Obviously, as the title implied, the answer is yes. And, as the title also hinted, this is most definitely bad.
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