“What universities can safely do and support is often determined by an assessment of the risks they run in alienating those who provide the funds. On the other hand universities are not set apart from the societies they inhabit, and so the pursuit of intellectual integrity needs to be placed by the academy in the context of the issues and problems faced by the community and the opportunities for improvement that academic inquiry may provide …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 17 April]