Pashuteh, you state that
“The definition of a college is freedom of expression. No professor of any stature will stand for having his words censored. However, the eitza is that the students should be sufficiently grounded in Torah and secular knowledge and would know how to refute and debate the professor based on the most advanced knowledge available i.e., on the professor’s home turf, not by quoting religious slogans.”
How many people do you know who can fulfill such requirements? Are you saying that nobody but the top kiruv professionals should attend college? Compare to Touro, where one doesn’t have to be a top kiruv professional to attend. All you need is emunah peshutah and a credit card.
The Gedolim of the Agudath Yisroel party were proven right about the Chabad issue by the very existence of those meshichistim. A movement which creates a large group of people who substitute “the Rebbe” for “Hashem” and say things like “The Rebbe helps”, “The Rebbe runs the world”, “it’s permitted to pray to the Rebbe” and other such avodah zarah is by definition not a wholesome Jewish movement. If these statements are Jewish ,then Christian statements (” Yeshu helps,Yeshu runs the world, it’s permitted to pray to Yeshu”) are Jewish too.