
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 200 - American Higher Education with Dr. Ellen Schrecker
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'We Can't Stand It Here'
By the 19 late sixties, harvard explodes, columbia explodes, university wisconsin. Students werea protesting gainst their universities in accordance with three separate types of demands. Each set of each school often had its own specific kind of demand. But we can see sort of three major categories of demands. One was against the schools a collaboration with the war effort, or collaboration with what came to be seen as the military industrial complex. A anti war students were very upset when they discovered that faculty members on their campuses were a working for the central intelligence agency.
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