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Reform of the nation’s higher-education institutions – like reform of any undertaking or organization – comes in various shapes and sizes.

Colleges and universities can handle through more effective oversight a professor or an administrator who deviates from the institution’s larger educational mission. Mounting departures from the institution’s larger mission require more extensive reform. And colleges and universities that lose sight of their larger mission, forgetting its key educational components or outright supplanting educational goals with political ones, call for comprehensive reform.

Months of campus protests – including harassment, intimidation, and unlawful encampments – following Iran-backed Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter of and kidnapping of Israelis, mainly civilians, shocked many observers off campus. Few on campuses drew the reasonable conclusion that colleges and universities that educate students who are disposed to side with the enthusiastic, premeditated perpetration of mass atrocities demand far-reaching reform.

Most of the nation’s top colleges and universities know that they should affirm that robust exchange of opinion is essential to the acquisition of knowledge. Not many, though, operate their education programs in accordance with the conviction that views dissenting from campus orthodoxy require assiduous protection and often make an indispensable contribution to the pursuit of truth.

Most of the nation’s top colleges and universities know that they should state the importance of abiding by the principles of due process in adjudicating charges against students, faculty, and administration. Yet they frequently lack a sure grasp of the process that is due the aggrieved and the accused.

Most of the nation’s top colleges and universities know that they should tout their curricula as serving students’ interests. However, they tend to be satisfied with their offerings and requirements despite generally failing to provide a coherent introduction to American political ideas and institutions, the Western tradition, and other civilizations.

Our colleges and universities’ obliviousness to their own serious shortcomings is a measure of how badly they have lost their way.

For at least 75 years, critics, mainly conservatives, have been taking notice of American higher education’s illiberal practices in the name of liberalism. In 1951 in “God and Man at Yale,” William F. Buckley Jr. exposed Yale’s social-sciences faculty’s collectivist slant and its humanities faculty’s atheistic dogmas. By the 1990s,........

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