Don't make diversity the enemy of excellence
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 20, 2019
3 minutes
As a new generation of college students gets ready to return to campus, I'm reminded of the late Allan Bloom, the University of Chicago professor, philosopher and -- on the subject of university education -- famously eloquent grump.
No one had any reason to expect his 1987 book with the stuffy title, "The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students," to be a
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