The Campus Courage Crisis
New England Board of Higher Education | Kyle Sebastian Vitale
Vitale dissects the idea of “courage” in today’s outrage culture, juxtaposing the Yale Law School protesters to UVA’s Emma Camp. “Courage is not screaming against the things that indispose us. Courage is sharing beliefs with confidence, authenticity and flexibility. It improves campus culture by contributing more perspectives and welcoming more views in the search for truth. It also requires much: faculty building classrooms that cultivate sincere interpersonal interest, administrators modeling charitableness and tenacity, and students choosing to listen and risk putting their beliefs under the microscope.”
