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It argues that a viral anti-intellectualism drives students toward an unexamined rejection of Western moral tradition while adopting other civilizations’ traditions as new foundations. This shift is linked to falsehoods being treated as knowledge, undermining evidence-based inquiry and producing serious real-world consequences for moral education and campus culture. 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Quest . (2021) 34.3 DOI 10. 51845/34 .3.5  \nReviving American Higher Education: An Analysis and Blueprint for Action  \nGerson Moreno-Riaño  \nColleges and universities are some of the most important social institutions in America. These institutions have the privilege of educating large segments of future generations of Americans who will advance or undermine the American way of life that has been bequeathed to them. These same institutions also have the greatest longevity of any other institution Americans have created. Harvard University—the first American university—was established in 1636, one-hundred and forty years before the American Revolution. Before 1776, there were a total of eighteen universities in America, all of which are still in operation. The most current official estimates suggest that there are over 4,000 degree-granting colleges and universities in America spending over $600 billion dollars educating close to twenty million students. America’s colleges and universities are thus foundational sources of cultural influence based on their vast reach, extensive resources, educational purpose, and historical transcendence.  \nBut there is trouble in American higher education. This essay focuses on the concerns related to the moral corruption of America’s college students caused by a viral anti-intellectualism spreading throughout American higher education. This anti-intellectualism is manifested through an unexamined rejection of Western civilization’s moral tradition and its embodiment in America’s founding vision and principles, in conjunction with an unexamined embrace of the moral traditions of other civilizations as new foundational pillars for American society. This anti-intellectualism or lack of serious intellectual inquiry can lead to the advance of falsehoods masquerading as truth and knowledge. As John Cobb, Jr. writes:  \nGerson Moreno-Riaño is President of Cornerstone University; [president@cornerstone.edu. This piece](president@cornerstone.edu. This piece)[ ](president@cornerstone.edu. This piece)was prepared as part of the National Association of Scholars‘ conference “Mapping Higher Education‘s Future After the Election,” on November 12, 2020.  \nThe lack of attention to assumptions has left unexamined some metaphysical assumptions that force scholars to neglect evidence and to defend positions that are obviously false. This is the real situation, while the university continues to present itself to the world as the source of unbiased knowledge. It places its prestige in support of a particular worldview, one that is demonstrably false. It socializes the elite to accept this unhealthy mental climate.1  \nThis anti-intellectualism has been well documented.2 And it should be noted that this anti-intellectualism is not just a mere academic squabble among academicians. The incomplete and incoherent views of reality as well as the falsehoods advanced by such anti-intellectualism in academia have terrifying real-world consequences given the influence of colleges and universities upon the moral education and formation of students and faculty.3 The groundwork for revolution has been laid in our anarchic, anti-American curricula for sometime, and unless corrective measures are taken a revolutionary anarchic ethos may become all too common on America’s college campuses and beyond, leading to an American society and culture unrecognizable to preceding generations. The last section of this paper introduces a high-level blueprint that can serve as an impetus for the reform and revival of American higher education.  \nThe Problem  \nAmerican colleges and universities have always positioned themselves asthe bastions of knowledge and truth for the moral formation of their students. Regardless of intellectual debates surrounding the meaning of such terms, universities in America have never rejected their implicit commitment to moral formation. As Julie A. Reuben reminds us in her book, The Making of the Modern Unive","cbCailfWxAfrhlEv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailfWxAfrhlEv","pdf",308953,14,"English","# The Role and Importance of American Higher Education\n# The Core Problem: Moral Corruption and Anti-Intellectualism\n# The Lack of Attention to Assumptions\n# Real-World Consequences and Threats to Campus Culture\n# The Problem\n## Universities as Moral Formers and Traditional Aims\n## Mission and Vision Statement Examples","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the essay identify in American higher education?\",\"answer\":\"It identifies a moral and intellectual crisis driven by viral anti-intellectualism among college students, expressed through unexamined rejection of Western moral tradition and an equally unexamined embrace of other moral traditions as new pillars.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay connect anti-intellectualism to students and knowledge?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that this anti-intellectualism leads to the advancement of falsehoods disguised as truth, and encourages scholars to neglect evidence while defending positions that are obviously false.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the essay propose to do at the end?\",\"answer\":\"It introduces a high-level blueprint intended to act as an impetus for reform and the revival of American higher education.\"}]","Reviving American Higher Education - An Analysis and Blueprint for Action | PDF",1792064748,35]