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The Power of The University

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

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The Socialization Effects of Diversity in Universities

I do think we should just acknowledge that the effect that you are describing, can produce some degree of homogenization of their views. And in principle, one of the reasons that we want a big diverse student body is so that the student body can remain intellectually diverse. I mean, sometimes it leads to people reaching a kind of background consensus on what they think. Some of our students come to university without full knowledge of the ain which the world that we live in came to be. To the extent that i hear from students on our campus are about racial and political justice on the one hand, and about long term concerned for environment on the other.

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