More Radicalizing of Higher Education Ahead

The American Thinker ^ | 31 Dec. 2009 | Jay Schalin

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In 2008, Congress disbanded the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) because according to the website Inside Higher Ed, the panel "had become too politicized."

If the previous committee was "too politicized" to permit its continued existence -- its big sin was to press for establishing universal, easily understood, quantifiable academic standards -- then what are we to make of way the Obama administration is loading up the newly formed NACIQI with diversity advocates and left-wing activists?

One has worked with ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now); another might have ties to LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens); and one is a callow youth with connections to a radical charity. Another still (Frank Wu) has written that he is "making a career out of [his] race."

Here are the six people Education Secretary Arne Duncan appointed to the committee whose job is to evaluate whether accrediting agencies are properly assessing the quality of the nation's colleges and universities!

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This is one of the MOST important topics of the coming months and years. Our kids are becoming little commies because of eductation in the US. It has GOT to stop. I certainly don’t want my tax dollars paying for educational materials that are WRONG. Unfortunately - that is what is happening! As conservatives - we have got to get involved in the process.

Left thinking is “wishful thinking on their part” and WRONG thinking for the rest of our country.

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This is one of the most important and pressing issues that must be dealt with in the post-revolutionary era.

There are a LOT of people in academia who refer to themselves as “the elite”. I know - I've talked to them!

A vast clean-up has to take place as soon as possible in this area.

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