To take your two points in reverse order:-
2. I am always very open about what I think the value commitments and conjectures of academic inquiry ought to be: see my From Knowledge to Wisdom.

1. Removing value and political assumptions from academic inquiry is neither possible nor desirable.  If academia has the aim of promoting human welfare, then of course values and politics cannot be eliminated.  (Not politics as the manipulative use of power, but politics as the activity of making choices about policy: rational politics.)  But even the purest pursuit of knowledge must make value assumptions in deciding to try to develop knowledge about such and such, rather than endlessly many other possibilities.

It is not desirable to remove values from academia, because, again, even the purest pursuit of knowledge seeks to develop knowledge that is, in some way or other, of value: significant, interesting, or useful.  A science that acquired a mass of knowledge of irredeemable triviality would not be judged to be making progress.

What matters is that academia goes about helping humanity learn what is of value, and how it is to be realized, in the best possible way- that is, rationally.  I have already tried to indicate how AOE could achieve this.  If you want to know more, I suggest you read my "From Knowledge to Wisdom", or my more recent, much shorter "How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World".