Missives from Two College Presidents

NAS research director David Randall looks at memoirs by two former presidents of elite universities, only to find self-congratulatory and unintended exposes of how these “confidence men,” as Randall calls them, manipulated the racial make-up of their student bodies, funded academically questionable departments and faculty when pressured by activists, presided over the expansion of DEI bureaucracies, and generally declined to restore academic standards or protect academic freedom.