She is at it again: “I don’t know if universities were right to go largely or fully remote in 2020.“
“But universities also have a responsibility to their students. And this is not just a minor responsibility; it is their core responsibility. Parents entrust their children to universities. Many professors—myself included—have looked those parents in the eye and told them a version of I will watch out for your child.”
- Wrong on two counts.
1. University students aren’t children. They’re adults. They can be prosecuted as adults and they can be drafted as adults. They can be called to jury duty too. They vote.
2. The University’s first obligation is to society at large, not the student. (This is the reason such should be publicly funded, not student paid tuition.) Universities exist to elevate society by raising the common level within society and by doing research society needs. They’re there for making better citizens. They’re not there to service individuals. Were that the case, then they’d have a much more customer driven model in which students would have the power.