Stephen Downes

I'm linking to today's 'Mini-Heap' so I can quote this: "In defense of 'mere civility' as a governing strategy for campus conflict -- because, says Marie Newhouse, 'No set of shared values specific enough to be action-guiding will be endorsed by all students, faculty, and staff, no matter how carefully those values are selected.'" Now you could have read the same from me for free several times over the last few years (extensively documented, for example, here and here), but this is in the Chronicle, so it's paywalled, and literally all I can see of the article is the excerpt above. I will note that this view is very much not that of my employer, as they have made clear to me.