Our higher learning institutions have been transformed into bastions of leftist ideas. Many universities have a decidedly anti-conservative bias, especially in the social sciences. By discriminating against conservative professors, colleges have ensured that left-wing teachers make up the majority of their teaching staff and inundate their students with leftist principles without being challenged.
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At a free speech symposium recently held at the University of Missouri, CNN commentator Sally Kohn argued that pro-free speech advocates are merely trying to stifle diversity on our respective college campuses.
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Free speech, of course, is a bad idea. Madness about free speech has been loosed upon college campuses throughout the nation, like a spreading flu. I exaggerate some, but not much. I could cite hundreds of examples, but here are three.
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When I set out for college in 1986, I believed that in the United States of America, a student could choose to become knowledgeable and trained in his own “pursuit of happiness.”
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Micro-aggressions, trigger warnings, and demands for “safe spaces” continue to dominate the campus news from coast to coast.
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April 2017 Eagle Forum Report April 2017 Eagle Forum Report – PDF
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As a college president, I have often argued that ideas have consequences. For good or for ill, ideas matter. People are unavoidably blessed or cursed by their guiding principles — by the import of their ideas. In many ways, we inevitably do practice what we preach.
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High school seniors are eagerly watching their mail this month, hoping for the “fat envelope” indicating acceptance by the college of their choice. Unfortunately, more American students are receiving the “thin envelope” because college acceptance rates are continuing their decade-long decline.
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When I worked my way through college in the 1940s, tuition was $200 to $250 a year.
Continue reading →High school seniors are eagerly watching their mail this month, hoping for the “fat envelope” indicating acceptance by the college of their choice.
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On the last day of 2015 the longest serving member of President Obama’s Cabinet, Arne Duncan, quietly stepped down from his official position as what the Washington Post called “the most powerful education secretary in U.S. history.”
Continue reading →When I heard that the Omnibus spending bill that President Obama signed a week before Christmas includes a provision allowing more foreign guest workers, my first reaction was disbelief.
Continue reading →Who would have thought, only a few years ago, that our basic First Amendment right of free speech would be under attack on college campuses (of all places!)? But those are now ordinary campus events.
Continue reading →Who would have thought, only a few years ago, that our basic First Amendment right of free speech would be under attack on college campuses (of all places!)? But those are now ordinary campus events.
Continue reading →The New York Times published a provocative news story called “The New Math on Campus.” No, it’s not about the failure of Common Core to teach arithmetic; it’s about the changing ratio of males to females on most college campuses.
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David Horowitz thinks that anybody who cares about the future of America should confront the fact that U.S. colleges and universities are the fountainhead of financing for the radical movement in America.
Continue reading →The Gang of Eight immigration bill, S.744, can be summed up as amnesty now, border closing never. The Department of Homeland Security is not required to build a fence (which was ordered by the Secure Fence Act signed by President George W. Bush). DHS is required only to submit a plan.
Continue reading →One of the ways to cut the big-spending binge engaged in by the federal government is to terminate the racket of college loans. It’s counterproductive, discriminatory, and a bad investment for both taxpayers and students.
Continue reading →When President Obama was participating in a live video chat, Jennifer Wedel asked him, “Why does the government continue to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?” Her husband is a semiconductor engineer laid off three years ago and still unable to find an engineering job.
Continue reading →Most Americans are unaware that about $700 Billion a year of federal taxpayers’ money is handed out to non-taxpayers allegedly below a poverty line.
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College is a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules.
Continue reading →We should reduce federal spending back to the level of the day Obama took office; most people don’t realize how much he increased spending in his first two years.
Continue reading →If you are attending college to get teacher certification, you will probably be required to attend classes on “multicultural education.” This is supposed to bring diversity to the classroom and prepare teachers to teach pupils of various ethnic or national backgrounds.
Continue reading →More taxpayer spending to send more students to college will not reduce unemployment or improve the economy.
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