Recent controversy over the contrarian views of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks espoused by University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett serves as a reminder that public universities are essentially political institutions, because they are public assets in which we all have a stake. This was no less true during the seminal decades following the Civil War, when many public universities were founded. Debates within the academy at that time of increasing specialization of the curriculum and democratization of education centered around the nature of the university and the clientele it should serve, but the university also ...

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