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Within higher education, structures like institutional autonomy, shared governance, and academic freedom have prevented partisan politics from controlling college classrooms. While, in most cases, these structures successfully insulate higher education institutions from censorship and hegemony, they can also confound the well-intentioned efforts of public officials who are seeking to address broad issues that are not rooted in current controversies. Take, for example, the iss

The conversation around college affordability often centers on tuition and fees, but as Corley Dennison, vice chancellor of academic...