Should I reconsider Oberlin as a possible school?

JBStillFlying
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:20:53 +0000

“I am a faculty member at a liberal arts college. I brought up “the Oberlin Gibson’s bakery scandal” with a colleague…and that colleague had no idea what I was talking about.”

We know liberal arts faculty at our local institutions and they ARE talking about it. And they are anything but Conservative. It might depend on how much of a bubble a particular institution is in.

And no, it’s not Jerry Sandusky “big” - because it deals with more complicated issues like whether this was a trial on Free Speech (answer: No). Most will tune out when the topic hints of having to crack a history book or recall what was taught in Am. Gov. But Oberlin isn’t attracting those types of “students” anyway, right? One would hope not, anyway.

USC might survive simply because they are publicly taking steps to address their wrongdoing. They aren’t doubling down. And haven’t checked but USC is probably in a bit better financial situation than Oberlin.