Fareed Zakaria Criticizes Elite Universities for Prioritizing Politics Over Academic Excellence

The CNN host urges institutions to refocus on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.

Fareed Zakaria, CNN host, criticizes elite American universities for prioritizing political agendas over academic excellence.
Zakaria argues that universities have transformed from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas, leading to a loss of public trust.
He suggests that universities have neglected their core focus on excellence to pursue agendas around diversity and inclusion, which have morphed into dogmatic ideologies.
Zakaria points out the lack of political diversity at universities and questions why safe spaces, microaggressions, and hate speech protections do not apply to all groups.
He urges universities to abandon politics, focus on their core strengths, and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.