Interesting interview with our new provost - you have to register and you get one free article before you pay. I've copied pasted the article below. He's guarded, but I'm cautiously optimistic that whatever path we embark on - and some sort of change is indeed inevitable - that it's not as dire as was directed (or implemented at UCLA). 
 
	I don't think it's wrong to think that in many ways there is a loosening of trust in higher education in the public - certainly in some polarized circles, which I am less interested in fixing (because it can't be). And perhaps one does need to think about how to address this. But some things make my spider-sense tingle like : 'Academic freedom is a very robust right, but it’s not an unlimited right.'. Fair, but the bigger question is who defines and enforces the limits?
 
	I want to follow his advice, but it's hard to: 'My plea to everyone on campus is: Wait until we actually have something announced, and then we can have that discussion.'
 
	Link: https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-as-universities-have-lost-our-way