Poisoned Ivies : the inside account of the academic and moral rot at America's elite universities / Elise Stefanik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stefanik, Elise, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stefanik, Elise, 1984-.

Stefanik, Elise.

Private universities and colleges.

Corruption.

Social sciences.

social sciences.

Physical Description:

xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Threshold Editions, [2026]

Summary:

"For decades, conservatives have warned about the decline of higher education. Now, for the first time in modern history, Americans are taking action. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Harvard alumna herself, lit the fuse when she posed basic questions to the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania, such as: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your university's rules on bullying and harassment? Their inability to answer with moral clarity sparked a national reckoning causing multiple Ivy League presidents to resign. It was the most-watched Congressional hearing of all time. But that was just the beginning. Poisoned Ivies delivers an unflinching account of what has gone wrong on America's college campuses. Stefanik exposes how the nation's most prestigious institutions abandoned their founding ideals of freedom of thought, open debate, and academic excellence, and instead embraced a culture of censorship, radical leftist groupthink, antisemitism, and moral cowardice that has spread far beyond campus walls to every corner of American life. Both a damning expoš and a blueprint for reform, Poisoned Ivies is a timely story of courage and conviction and the power of one voice to challenge the status quo in American higher education and delivers a long-overdue reckoning. A must-read for anyone concerned with the fight for our nation's soul." -- Publisher's website.

Poisoned Ivies by Elise Stefanik examines recent debates surrounding higher education in the United States, particularly at elite universities. The book discusses a congressional hearing involving leaders from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Pennsylvania, and considers public and institutional responses to issues such as campus speech, antisemitism, and university governance. Stefanik presents her perspective on changes in academic culture, including discussions of free expression, ideological diversity, and administrative decision-making. The work also outlines proposed approaches to reform within higher education institutions.

Contents:

Hearing heard around the world

Harvard

Harvard exposed

University of Pennsylvania

Columbia

Other Ivies and beyond

Yale

Princeton

Brown

Northwestern

Cooper Union

MIT

Cornell

What went wrong?

How we fix it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher data.

ISBN:

9781668087534

1668087537

OCLC:

1548748504

Publisher Number:

90104343867