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Look, I believe in the fierce
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independence of our educational
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institutions and I worry that if we are
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swaying in one direction or another
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based on who is in office, then we don't
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have the trust of the American people.
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And I think we failed in some ways to
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show that we could self-regulate and do
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that ourselves. But the goal in my mind
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is to get back to a place where it's
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clear that universities aren't political
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organizations, aren't taking a position,
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that we are focused on bringing the best
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and brightest to go out and contribute
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to our democracy and we can do that
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ourselves.
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Why have we been losing trust and
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confidence to grossly oversimplify its
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cost, its career and its culture? The
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cost thing came up, you know, are the
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career opportunities there? and by
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culture it's sort of have things got too
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progressive or not a tolerant enough of
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viewpoint diversity. Those are all
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reasonable things to talk about. The
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questions that are being asked under
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this administration and even before that
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many of them it's like yeah we need to
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be more reflective. I think there's too
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little viewpoint diversity.
