It is a bizarre way to make friends. Over the past two decades, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni has tried to win over college governing-board members with the toughest of love. Many of you, the council implicitly suggests, are noodle-spined boosters, seduced by a few lousy box seats at football games. Rather than exercise your authority, the council asserts, you sit by as professors and presidents transform your beloved universities into high-cost bastions of political correctness, where little learning happens, and trendy courses on postcolonial theory and gender studies squeeze out Shakespeare and American history. But you can change all of that, the nonprofit group proclaims.

April 10, 2016 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education