Balancing Views on Campus

by E Wayne Ross on November 27, 2006

The Boston Globe: Chipping and putting have joined law and economics as required courses at China’s Xiamen University, sparking outrage in a country where golf is still frowned upon as a pastime of the rich.

DIVERSITY in higher education was a major topic of discussion at a recent conference in Cambridge . The focus, however, was not on the familiar concept of diversity as a desirable mix of races, genders, and ethnic groups. Rather, participants deplored the lack of intellectual and political diversity on college campuses.