In a recent Boston Globe column, correspondent Kara Miller wrote that our colleges and universities now “embrac[e] the status quo,” preventing them from responding to new challenges.
The summer has been relatively free of campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war. But institutions continue to grapple with conduct violations and policy changes following the spring encampments. Universities have spent the summer dealing with the aftermath of pro-Palestinian encampments that sprung up on campuses in the second half of the spring semester.