What our students learned at Auschwitz could help end hate in higher education

Some of the most important lessons universities can teach are not on any syllabus. This past June, each of us sent students to Poland as part of a joint program. In a small shop in Warsaw, a Polish clerk refused to place change directly into the hand of a young Wilberforce University student. She had traveled four thousand miles to study the machinery of hatred at Auschwitz , but she did not need the field trip for bias and hatred to find her. It met her at the cash register. What happened next