‘Being neutral (on campus) helps everyone feel safe, allows different people to have different views’: London Business School Dean
As premier US universities face an unprecedented attack from Washington, from funding-cuts to student visa crackdowns, Sergei Guriev, economist and Dean, London Business School (LBS), frames the challenge. Underlining that student and faculty diversity are a “necessity” for excellence and innovation, he says one way to ensure that is for academic leadership to be neutral. For, being neutral allows everyone (wherever you come from) to feel safe and different people to have different views.
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The (university’s) capacity to focus on academic excellence and bring together diverse groups of students is not a luxury but a necessity — to concentrate on excellence in academic research and teaching… At LBS around 95% of students are international a...