“Academic Freedom” Out, “Innovation” In as Utah Trustees Approve New Mission Statement

On Tuesday, the University of Utah’s Board of Trustees voted to abandon a ten-year-old 120-word mission statement, branded too “long-winded” and lacking in tangible goals, replacing it with a new 70-word version that Academic Senate President Bill Johnson called “a nice, tight mission statement.”  According to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune, the new…