The architect Deborah Berke, who has been on the faculty for nearly three decades, points out that Stern's leadership has been notable for how much he's avoided foisting his own ideology onto students and staff.
Three sets of researchers recently concluded that professors have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students.
Although some welcomed this blurring of boundaries between socialism and welfare-state liberalism as a sign of "the end of ideology," the more radical student left of the 1960s complained that there was little choice between capitalism, the "obsolete communism" of the Marxist-Leninists, and the bureaucratic socialism of western Europe.
More than just ideology, though, has kept student-loan companies in their lucrative niche.
Foreign universities are being encouraged to build campuses in Vietnam, yet a recent official circular stipulates that they have to teach "Ho Chi Minh ideology" to all Vietnamese students.
But even what should be a gut-wrenching resignation to irreconcilable ideologies between teacher and student, and between two 18-year-old antagonists, does not take theatrical shape.
Judge Shabaz said the university's guidelines did not guarantee that funding decisions were not based on the student groups' ideologies, a requirement set down by the Supreme Court.
It also reflects the outward-looking ideology of today's students, who are rallying for the rights of low-wage workers even though, with their expensive degrees, they are unlikely to confront such problems personally.
In other words on the one hand, we have the "ideology" behind mixing diverse students (which certainly has some positive advantages) and on the other we have the "practice" behind mixing students (the negative side of mixing groups).
"It is my firm view that we all have a role to play in challenging extremist ideologies and protecting students on campus.
