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LZ Granderson: Have colleges lost their way? Yes, but don't blame 'wokeness'

Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The Committee held a hearing to investigate antisemitism on college campuses.

Believe it or not, one recent divisive week in Washington did manage to produce a cause on which 303 members of the House could agree: condemning the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, MIT and Harvard.

In between impeachment talk and the battle for Ukraine funding, the House passed a resolution calling out antisemitism on college campuses as well as the testimony from the university presidents who participated in

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