A professor recently wrote a candid essay in which she confessed a secret: she didn’t want to write a letter of recommendation for a student, solely because this student has different views (presumably) about gun rights.
Note that the situation made the professor feel uncomfortable—not because she saw anything wrong with her stance, but because the sheer awkwardness of it was frustrating. How do you tell a student—one who is satisfactory in all relevant ways—that you can’t recommend them because you suspect their political opinions don’t completely align with yours?
The professor teaches at an unnamed college and used a pseudonym in her article for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Arrogant, intolerant, and oblivious to her biases (and how destructive they are), she is everything that is wrong with modern higher education.
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