The faculty pushing back against "administrative encroachment" and seeking "the primacy of teaching, learning and research" are your perfect example of an over produced elite?
They push back on institutions taking up activism, not individual faculties engaging in activism.
Administrators (and students) are not faculty.
Whose common knowledge? I have never heard the argument that most faculties are activists.
This argument is a classic ad populum fallacy [0]. Using it to characterise (and discredit) and entire group is not a honorable thing to do.
Out of curiosity, whats the difference? Both sound like disconnected ivory towers to me...
Berkeley has had the left leaning historical reputation from the days of the free speech movement and Vietnam protests. But these days (it-least from an outsiders view) it actually seems more grounded since it's a public school & doesn't do race based admissions (Berkeley is 35% asian & 20% white vs CMC is 16% asian and 35% white)[1][2]
[1] https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/colleges/university-of-ca... [2] https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/colleges/claremont-mckenn...
My guess is that this is at least in part due to the different racial makeup of their respective applicant pools. Going to Cal is a dream of many Asian high schoolers; CMC is not revered in the same way.
[1] https://rankings.thefire.org/rank
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson%27s_Bakery_v._Oberlin_C...
This blog post claims the change was due to methodological changes that don't necessarily make sense. [2]
1: https://www.cmc.edu/newsfeed/cmc-ranks-best-free-speech
2: https://www.cmcforum.com/post/cmc-under-fire-behind-the-rank...
> a negative reaction to white professors employing the n-word hardly persuades me that CMC has a free-speech problem.
"negative reaction" is a framing... Another would be that there were multiple incidents of students reporting professors to the administration for the content of their lectures (And they don't see how that would effect free expression on campus!)
> This is a very strange criterion for evaluating free speech on campus. Some degree of self-censorship is natural, healthy, and wise. What socially aware person expresses every thought that crosses their mind
If this really is a "bad criterion" (I don't think it is), then it'd be a systemic bias effecting every school & not uniquely CMC.
It could be worse, looks like Emory dropped from #4 to #202
Berkeley vs U Chicago or Berkeley vs U Virginia would have clicked.
Also, why are those Jewish students cowering? Has there been violence against them on campus?
I also don’t think the school needs to manufacture student mobs. People get these opinions from the internet far more than school imo. Furthermore, if Jewish students were cowering, which I doubt, it wouldn’t invalidate the mob’s reason for forming, which is in response to an ongoing genocide. I’m glad the school doesn’t crack down on opposition to such.