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Technological Utopianism

SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
5/16/2023

Reject the Bombastic Optimism of College Presidents

by Joshua Doležal

When the rhetoric of university presidents—transformative this, vision that—resembles that of prosperity gospel televangelists, it may be time for some healthy skepticism.

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Technological Utopianism

Reject the Bombastic Optimism of College Presidents

by Joshua Doležal