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Peter MacKinnon: The clear and present danger to universities is not from without, but within
There is declining confidence in our universities as institutions committed to the search for truth
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Two University of Regina education professors have edited a new volume: Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities (University of Regina Press, 2026) in which fascism, settler colonialism and other right-wing influences are identified as threats to higher education.
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The editors and their contributors fill more than 300 pages on an important subject — the future of our universities — and their essays proclaim that universities are besieged from the political right, including strong attacks on DEI, academic freedom and tenure, and that they must reaffirm their raison d’être as “autonomous and self-reflective institutions.”
Peter MacKinnon: The clear........