This can infect the way we grade, what we teach, how we teach, and every other aspect of the educational process and community life. Among students it can infect the way you interact with peers and teachers, how you evaluate courses, and every other aspect of college life. Truth is the only reliable check on power. Without truth, power is all that is left. Truth never, never corrupts.
Power always tends to corrupt and unchecked by truth inevitably corrupts.
Of course there should be. But without truth, they are lost causes. But, community depends on truth as well as love. Integration of faith and learning depends on truth. Multiculturalism depends on truth.