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Every college usually has it's fair share of liberal, conservative, and to the middle professors and classes.
Depends on what course of study one follows.
Send your kids to Liberty University for their conservative indoctrination if that's what you want.
I'm not a conservative. I don't think political indoctrination should be part of college/university life in the first place whether it's left of right leaning.
Show both sides of the issue, let the students make up their own mind and learn how to practice critical thinking.
This is why the current generation needs safe spaces and play-doh if they happen to come in contact with something that might offend them. We aren't doing them any favors in preparing them for life after graduation.
The OP has an excellent point!
For years the mantra from parents everywhere was "study hard, go to college or university and get a good job.
What happens now is that kids go to college, get coddled and protected from reality while they are there, they have safe spaces and demand the removal of anything offensive and then they leave and are in huge debt for the next 10-15 years!
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Some of these left wing schools charge $65,000 or more per year to get information from left wing biased radicals with a left agenda.
Who wants to pay for that or being left for years with a study loan debt to get brainwashed.
Now additional the kids safety is in danger as we all could see how safe Berkeley and NYU are.
WHY is it we hear the RW continually whining about left wing biased universities and colleges? Is the RW completely incapable of starting/running their own schools or just too damn lazy? Or do they just love pointless whining?
WHY is it we hear the RW continually whining about left wing biased universities and colleges? Is the RW completely incapable of starting/running their own schools or just too damn lazy? Or do they just love pointless whining?
Is this why places like the Rust Belt and Appalachia have fewer college educated people? Is this why they are having trouble finding jobs or bringing industries to their area to grow employment? If they fear a college education because it might change their views, why should the rest of the country supplement their existence? If they are choosing to live a life based on the income a high school or sub high school education brings, that is a choice they can make without forcing the rest of the country to deal with their <chosen> results.
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universities should not be left or right biased
I'm not one of those continually whining that they are, only asking IF the RW is so sure they are, why not do something more than whine about it? Or is all that 'personal responsibility' blather just that, meaningless blather?
Gotta love the latest alt-right word of the year - "indoctrination". Approx 6 months ago that word started getting associated with higher education & lefties. Surely some right wing propaganda pumping web sites and news channels started using the word "indoctrination" over and over enough so that it stuck into the heads of those impressionable righties.
These impressionable righties actually got indoctrinated with the word "indoctrinate". Now they have associated that word with college/lefties and have turned the combination into their enemy.
This alt-right propaganda fooled some people into thinking that higher education is bad and is poisoning the minds of students to think like the enemy of the alt-right. Some people actually bought this propaganda hook, line and sinker.
This subset hates higher education because they chose not to go to college. They find fault in anyone else that went to college (e.g costs too much, only can get a job at Starbucks). Now they found a fake reason to hate higher education even more. Now they have an excuse - "it indoctrinates lefties". LOLROFL.
The real sad part is that some people are so gullible that they got fooled into actually believing this BS. And they repeat it. Makes you wonder if this new anti-education propaganda is part of the alt-right's long term goal to keep the peasants held down/uneducated so in the future they can be tricked/fooled by even more political propaganda.
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Is this why places like the Rust Belt and Appalachia have fewer college educated people? Is this why they are having trouble finding jobs or bringing industries to their area to grow employment? If they fear a college education because it might change their views, why should the rest of the country supplement their existence? If they are choosing to live a life based on the income a high school or sub high school education brings, that is a choice they can make without forcing the rest of the country to deal with their <chosen> results.
There are plenty of college grads who struggle to find a job as well, then they have the additional burden of being tens of thousands of dollars in debt! It really depends on what you decided to major in and what the job market supports when you get out.
I'm not one of those continually whining that they are, only asking IF the RW is so sure they are, why not do something more than whine about it? Or is all that 'personal responsibility' blather just that, meaningless blather?
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Last spring, Samuel Abrams, a professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College, in New York, decided to run the numbers. From the start, he certainly expected liberal professors to outnumber conservatives, but his data—25 years’ worth of statistics from the Higher Education Research Institute—told a far more startling tale: In the South and throughout the Great Plains, the ratio of liberal to conservative professors hovered around 3 to 1. On the liberal left coast, the ratio was 6 to 1. And then there was New England—which looked like William F. Buckley’s worst nightmare—standing at 28 to 1. “It astonished me,” says Abrams, whose research revealed that conservative professors weren’t just rare; they were being pushed to the edge of extinction.
Sounds like the answer for conservatives is just avoid advanced education, stick with high school or home school and live within the means those results generate. Since welfare has decreased in direct proportion with disability increasing and the top five states on disability are in the south, specifically West Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, perhaps the solution is to make disability state-based the way welfare is. Then when these people lacking education choose a life on disability, the states own the results rather than the tax-paying public being forced to support them.
I have no issue whatsoever with conservatives being against college as long as I'm not paying to support them.
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