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The Problem Is Academia

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The Problem Is Academia
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Laura Hollis
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The explosion of violent and shockingly anti-Semitic protests on college campuses is just the latest in a series of self-inflicted black eyes for higher education in the United States. In March 2023, a group of students at Stanford Law School shut down a talk by federal Judge Kyle Duncan, screaming vulgar epithets and refusing to allow him to speak. In October 2023, the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania embarrassed themselves in congressional hearings convened to ask about combating anti-Semitism on their campuses. Penn President Liz Magill resigned immediately thereafter. Harvard President Claudine Gay survived that controversy but resigned a few weeks later when multiple instances of plagiarism in her research were exposed.

Laura Hollis
Laura Hollis
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Laura Hirschfeld Hollis is a native of Champaign, Illinois. She received her undergraduate degree in English and her law degree from the University of Notre Dame. Hollis’s career as an attorney has spanned 28 years, the past 23 of which have been in higher education. She has taught law at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has nearly 15 years' experience in the development and delivery of entrepreneurship courses, seminars and workshops for multiple audiences. Her scholarly interests include entrepreneurship and public policy, economic development, technology commercialization and general business law. In addition to her legal publications, Hollis has been a freelance political writer since 1993, writing for The Detroit News, HOUR Detroit magazine, Townhall.com, and the Christian Post, on matters of politics and culture. She is a frequent public speaker. Hollis has received numerous awards for her teaching, research, community service and contributions to entrepreneurship education. She is married to Jess Hollis, a musician, voiceover artist, and audio engineer. They live in Indiana with their two children, Alistair and Celeste.