Instead of offering a discerning inside view of higher education in Chapel Hill, the article's more than 3,500 words presented an outside take rehashing old, ill-informed arguments over SCiLL's founding and airing ironic angst about the composition of its faculty.
Progressives in academia and the news media might treat ideologically conservative and centrist scholars like exotic zoo animals - to be viewed warily from a safe distance... but those academic outliers contribute to the richness of the education of all students, including liberals.
For the betterment of everyone, surely a variety of intellectual perspectives is as important as any other kind of diversity at taxpayer-funded institutions of higher education, particularly one as prestigious and ambitious as The University of North Carolina.
As the nation's first public university, UNC-CH has a responsibility to be a place that brings together people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
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