Wendler: Universities and Moral Duty in a Republic — The Amarillo Pioneer

Wendler: Universities and Moral Duty in a Republic — The Amarillo Pioneer

By Dr. Walter V. Wendler, President of West Texas A&M University Let me begin with a simple but unsettling question: Is a university amoral?Some would say yes. They would say the university is a neutral space, a marketplace of ideas, where every opinion has its price and no truth is more costly than another. They would tell us that morality belongs in the private sphere and that the university should limit itself to research, workforce training …