Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education

by Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor

Book Overview

Open inquiry and engagement with a diverse range of views are long-cherished and central tenets of higher education and are pivotal to innovation and knowledge creation. Yet, free inquiry on American campuses is hampered by a climate that constrains teaching, research, and overall discourse.

In Unassailable Ideas, Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor examine the dominant belief system on American campuses, its uncompromising enforcement through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190078065
• ISBN13: 9780190078065
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"