Summary of Will Bunch's After the Ivory Tower Falls

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#1 Kenyon College is a small, liberal arts school in Ohio. It was given a $75 million donation in 2017 to build a new West Quad, which included a new admissions office. The school is known for its rich and diverse student body, but one of its neighbors is the last remaining source of good blue-collar jobs in the area.

#2 The students at Kenyon College, a small liberal arts school in Ohio, voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. In the rest of the county, Trump won by 5 points.

#3 Kenyon College is a small, liberal arts school in Ohio. It was given a $75 million donation in 2017 to build a new West Quad, which included a new admissions office. The school is known for its rich and diverse student body, but one of its neighbors is the last remaining source of good blue-collar jobs in the area.

#4 There are striking student labor groups at a handful of colleges, including the ones at Kenyon, California Institute of the Arts, and Columbia University.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350000528

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Kenyon College, a place where parents from the Hollywood hills and the Upper West Side send their children to spend upwards of $300,000 over four years, is coming up on your left.

#2

There are very few places in America where the two groups coexist like they do in Knox County, Ohio.

#3

Kenyon, a small liberal arts school in Ohio, was shocked by Trump’s win in 2016. In central Ohio, people spend a lot of time talking past each other rather than to each other.

#4

The first time in American labor history that undergraduate student workers formed a union and went on strike was at Kenyon College, in 2017. The Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee had first seemed a natural outgrowth of the labor affinities of a growing number of students drawn to democratic socialism.

#5

The strike is not an overnight sensation. It is these compounded disappointments that you see with this institution.

#6

In June 2020, the financially struggling college announced $19. 3 million in budget cuts, including a proposal to reduce pension-plan contributions. The student workers went on strike to protest the cuts, but the school wouldn’t recognize their union.

#7

Pastor Bill Dunfee, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, preaches that America is weighed down by sin, and that a judgmental God has wrath for the nation now that Donald Trump is no longer in the White House to protect them.

#8

The pastor’s sermon quickly shifted to the recent Capitol Hill protests, where he claimed that all those who were on Capitol Hill protesting were patriots, but those who were on the internet or social media were not. He then went on to say that the election was stolen and that all those who were on Capitol Hill protesting were not on the train.

#9

The closure of the Pittsburgh Plate and Glass factory in 1976 marked the end of the Belgian glassmakers who’d emigrated to Knox