The ’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire

There is a shift in the wind.  Baby boomers are beginning to retire in droves and with them go the lessons so acutely learned and lived in the 60’s.  Over the next decade we can expect a vast generational change that is likely to profoundly alter the culture at American universities and colleges.

“Baby boomers, hired in large numbers during a huge expansion in higher education that continued into the ’70s, are being replaced by younger professors who many of the nearly 50 academics interviewed by The New York Times believe are different from their predecessors — less ideologically polarized and more politically moderate.”
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One Response to “The ’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire”

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    Howard Goldman Says:

    An student’s bill of rights should be implimented in colleges immediately. This has been successfully fought against thus far.

    Colleges are all for an open discussion as long as all of the party’s are liberal.

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