Broken Windows on Campus: Addressing Disorder and Monoculture in Higher Education Tal Fortgang Tal Fortgang applies the "broken windows" theory to higher education, arguing that unpunished small infractions, like shutting down speakers, lead to campus dis
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
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| 0:24.0 | I'm John. Visit sumup.co.uk to learn more. I'm John Batchez speaking to you, my colleague Tal Fortgang. He's a legal policy fellow |
| 0:28.4 | at the Manhattan Institute writing at Civitas Outlook about what appears to be a commonsensical |
| 0:35.6 | approach called broken window policing of the late 20th century. |
| 0:41.1 | You fix the broken window, and that leads like, give a mouse a cookie, |
| 0:45.6 | to making everyone feel safe and secure and well cared for in the neighborhood on the street. |
| 0:52.5 | Does it apply to the universities and campuses |
| 0:55.3 | that have been through disruption these last years? |
| 0:58.3 | And the disruption may might very well continue. |
| 1:01.5 | It certainly was present 50 years ago when I was on campus. |
| 1:05.6 | And though the themes change and the language changes, |
| 1:09.1 | it remains the same. |
| 1:10.4 | What is the responsibility of the university? |
| 1:12.6 | When I first arrived at a university, it was a phrase of Latin phrase called, in loco parentis, |
| 1:18.6 | which gave the university policing power. In those days, it was over something as strange today as it was then, |
| 1:26.6 | which is no young women on campus after a certain hour on the weekends. |
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