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This sounds like the department will shirk its responsibilities to defend students from colleges that act in bad faith or show poor judgment.

From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2018

He has a strong sense of duty and since the real problem is his, not ours, I doubt if he will shirk it.”

From A Prize for Edie by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)

Sometimes they are exceedingly industrious and obedient, but then there is an even chance that they will shirk and follow their own sweet will.

From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold

And in a marriage of enthusiastic devotion and mutual admiration, the younger or the weaker mind, however candid, will shirk or stop short of conclusions which, it instinctively feels, may lead to collision.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

They will shirk their work, or blow in your face, or tell you anecdotes which will make you weep.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian