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.
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