Professors pushing their liberal views on students.

[EggsAckley]

"Professors pushing their liberal views on students."



This is a headline that could be from the 70s. It's been going on for a LONG time.

[Riley]

I finally gave up on the whole deal. I had a 4.0 GPA without really trying that hard (except in math) and I finally just got fed up. I couldn't eat that much ####.

I came back in after a stint in the Marine Corps as an adult, and I couldn't believe what they were feeding the kids. If I spoke up for politically-neutral intellectual integrity- not even for Conservatism, but for neutrality- a ring of nitwits would physically form around me and shout me down.

I ended up taking a lot of hard science classes, and thoroughly enjoying them. I wouldn't even take the "social issues" crap that was required for graduation. I was supposed to take a class called 'mass communications', that was taught by some African immigrant with a hard-n for the United States. I walked out in the middle of his lecture, right in front of him, and dropped the class.

Rome is falling, make no mistake, and it's all thanks to these fools.

[kelcey]

Here is also a list of articles and the sites you can read them at, that have more tales of this liberal nonsense.

Naples Daily News Dec. 26, 2003
Real history is taking a back seat to today's twisted truths by Thomas Sowell http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/pe_columnists/article/0,2071,NPDN_14960_2513164,00.html

FrontPageMagazine.com Dec. 03, 2003
My Second Marxist Indoctrination by Tatiana Menaker
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11109

The Daily O'Collegian (Oklahoma State Univ) Dec. 02, 2003
Academic freedom should be a two-way street by C. Brooks Kurtz
http://www.ocolly.com/new_ocollycom/archives/show_story.php?a_id=20655

American Association of University Professors Dec. 2003
Academic Bills of Rights
http://www.aaup.org/statements/SpchState/billofrights.htm

The Daily Beacon (U Tenn. Knoxville) Nov. 13, 2003
Liberal Issues Committee desperately needs changes by Sukhmani Singh Khalsa
http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/article.php/12707

US Senate Testimony Oct. 29, 2003
Is Intellectual Diversity an Endangered Species on America's College Campuses
http://www.labor.senate.gov/bills/031_bill.html

National Review 2003 (Education) Oct. 13, 2003
Topsy-Turvy by Victor Davis Hanson
http://ads.nationalreview.com/education_1.asp

The Los Angeles Times (online registration is free) Oct. 05, 2003
But, Teacher, My Homework Got Run Over at the Taco Bell Protest [Re: middle school] by Richard Lee Colvin
http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept

The New York Times (online registration is free) Sept. 27, 2003
Lonely Campus Voices by David Brooks
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/27/opinion/27BROO.html&OQ=exQ3D1065693918Q26eiQ3D1Q26enQ3D230921bd44fc14f3

The North County Times Aug. 21, 2003
College: Dazed and abused by Rick Reiss
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2003/08/21/opinion/commentary/8_21_038_07_23.txt

The Houston Chronicle Aug. 8, 2003
No room for diverse opinion on campuses by Jeanne McDonnell
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/outlook/2039307

USA Today Aug. 04, 2003
Diversify colleges' political tilt by Laura Vanderkam
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030804/5377715s.htm

Columbia College Today July 2003
Brandeis 2003 Commencement Address by Eugene Goodheart
http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jul03/forum.php

The Press Democrat Jul. 18, 2003
Teacher responds to SRJC president's critical remarks by Robert Digitale


The Press Democrat Jul. 17, 2003
SRJC teacher can't be fired for lesson by Robert Digitale
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/evergreen/stories/071703_srjc.html

City Journal Summer 2003
Union U. by Steven Malanga
http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_3_union_u.html

The California Review (UCSD) Jun. 6, 2003
InDOCtrination in America by Spencer Westcott
http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~calrev/archives/2002-2003/spring2003b/articles/article02.htm

Academe May-June 2003
Academic Freedom and the "Intifada Curriculum" by Robert C. Post
http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/03mj/03mjpost.htm

The Washington Dispatch May. 29, 2003
The Final Lecture by Izzy Lyman
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/20/5601/printer

The Journal Inquirer May. 28, 2003
Organization of scholars criticizes CSU for lack of intellectual diversity in its faculty by Kurt Moffett
http://noindoctrination.org/article04.shtml

The Chronicle of Higher Education May. 27, 2003
Keeping Your Politics Out of the Classroom by Jill Carroll
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/05/2003052701c.htm

Associated Press (via The Ithaca Journal) May. 27, 2003
Secretive SUNY? Bill would deny access to sources by Michael Gormley
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20030527/localnews/370785.html

The Washington Witness (Washington Univ in Saint Louis) May. 12, 2003
Tyranny of the Majority: Dealing with the Hegemony of the Campus Left by Emily Katz
http://restech.wustl.edu/~cla/witness/stories/campusleft.shtml

The Cornell Daily Sun Apr. 28, 2003
Why Liberals Should Care About Liberal Bias by Joe Sabia
http://www.cornelldailysun.com/articles/8633/

The UCSD Guardian Apr. 10, 2003
Professors must be impartial regardless of politics by Dustin Frelich
http://ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/print?param=opinion_2003_04_10_05

City Journal Spring 2003
Queering the Schools by Marjorie King
http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_queering_the_schools.html

The Daily Beacon (Univ of Tennessee) Mar. 28, 2003
Universities celebrate diversity in all but ideology by Sukhmani Singh Khalsa
http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/article.php/9741

CBS News Mar. 13, 2003
Anti-War Extra Credit (Scroll to second item on page)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/14/national/main544091.shtml

National Review Online Mar. 11, 2003
Bitter Taste of Academia by Mark Goldblatt
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-goldblatt031103.asp

The London Free Press Mar. 10, 2003
'Vocational licence' erodes academic freedom by Benjamin D. Singer
http://noindoctrination.org/article02.shtml

The Stanford Review Feb. 26, 2003
We Must Always Remain Critical by William E. Hudson
http://www.stanfordreview.org/Archive/Volume_XXX/Issue_1/Opinion/opinion1.shtml

Northwestern Chronicle Feb. 21, 2003
Indoctrination 101 by James Gelfand
http://www.chron.org/tools/viewart.php?artid=625

The Daily Bruin (UCLA) Feb. 3, 2003
UC denies students unbiased education by Alina Varona
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=22651

The Reveille (LSU) Jan. 29, 2003
Leaning left: Liberal bias seeping into students' college education by Jason Doré
http://www.lsureveille.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/01/29/3e3771d1de02f?in_archive=1


The Daily Texan (Univ of Texas) Dec. 9, 2002
Education suffers when ideology enters classroom by Christian Hurt
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/12/09/3df456dfd9e7c?in_archive=1

Arizona Daily Wildcat Dec. 6, 2002
Unbiased profs deserve special recognition by Shane Dale
http://newsdirectory.com/go/?f=&r=az&u=wildcat.arizona.edu

Arizona State University Web Devil Nov. 12, 2002
Liberal bias plagues 100-level classes by Shanna Bowman
http://www.statepress.com/news/320898.html

The Tartan (Carnegie Mellon) Nov. 11, 2002
Cheap trick: individuality stolen under US lesson plans: Part II of II in 'Politiking In the Classroom' by Dain Pascocello
http://www.thetartan.org/97/10/forum/2566.asp

The Tartan (Carnegie Mellon) Oct. 28, 2002
Politiking In the Classroom: Professors should stick to the facts by Dain Pascocello
http://www.thetartan.org/97/8/forum/2397.asp

The UCSD Guardian Oct. 21, 2002
UCSD's profs mostly liberal: Political imbalance detrimental to students by Dustin Frelich
http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/opinion?art=2002_10_21_03

The Hartford Courant Oct. 20, 2002
Liberal Colleges Need A Different Kind Of Diversity by Jay Bergman
http://noindoctrination.org/article01.shtml

The Christian Science Monitor Oct. 8, 2002
Faulty Faculty Diversity
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1008/p08s03-comv.html

Family News in Focus Sep. 27, 2002
Freshman Orientation Becoming Indoctrination by Bob Kellogg
http://family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0022446.cfm

The Cornell Daily Sun Sep. 4, 2002
College Professors Exhibit Disturbing Liberal Trend by Hillary Profita
http://www.cornellsun.com/articles/5805/

The Diamond Back (University of Maryland) Sep. 4, 2002
Diversity intiative excludes the right by David Sohns
http://www.inform.umd.edu/News/Diamondback/archives/2002/09/04/commentary4.html

the Michigan Daily (University of Michigan) May 6, 2002
Racism 101: RA's diversity indoctrination by Kevin McNeil
http://www.michigandaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/05/06/3cd6241f7e337?in_archive=1

Oregon Daily Emerald Apr. 2, 2002
Many students suffer from 'bipolarity' by Mark Grant
http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/04/02/3ca9dfcf4a42d?in_archive=1

The American Sociologist Winter 2001
Political Ideology in Social Problems Courses by Myles J. Kelleher
http://noindoctrination.org/article03.shtml

The Dartmouth Review Oct. 15, 2001
Alumni: Fight Student Brainwashing by Monroe Diefendorf
http://www.dartreview.com/issues/10.15.01/alumni.html

Fox News May. 9, 2001
America's Re-Education Camps by Wendy McElroy
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,24276,00.html

The UCSD Guardian Nov. 16, 2000
Misconception of Free Speech is Rampant Spread by Parisa Baharian
http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/opinion?art=2000_11_16_03

REASON Mar. 2000
Thought Reform 101: The Orwellian implications of today's college orientation by Alan Charles Kors
http://reason.com/0003/fe.ak.thought.shtml

Independent Women's Forum Jan. 2000
Girls, Pearls, and Indoctrination Machines by Erin McGlinchey
http://www.iwf.org/campus/smith/smithJanuary2000b.shtml

[Vesuvian]

This professor has been teaching the virtues of preemption using the war on terror as an example, although I feel like I'm literally one in a million (which in this case is not good)

[moehoward]

bump

[EggsAckley]

I went to college in the late sixties....Vietnam protest days. The professors were beginning to become ultra liberal then, but no one would acknowledge it. Then I went back in the late eighties to finish an MA. The college by then was totally submerged in socialism. I just had to keep my mouth shut and do the work. Low profile. Oddly, you are probably NOT alone, but others are keeping quiet too.

[Vesuvian]

I try not too keep quiet- and oddly enough it seems like most students are actually conservative if they could only be made to realize it. I hope I have a few converts- some tell me they are libertarians but are afraid to let that be known. I try my best.

[EggsAckley]

Fight the good fight! We need young people like you to keep the flame alive!

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - EDUCATION - LIBERAL PROFESSORS

[Swanks]

Jerry Agar (WPTF Raleigh) had a UNC-CH kid on today that dared to stand up as a white kid and say that the money he did have, he earned from work (He ran a car broker biz as a high schooler)

His penalty? The Nazi instructor blasted an email around campus naming him as a white, Christian hate speech monger who is alarming her class by his hate speech.

(I'm trying to find the amil, no luck yet). The days class was on why white people esp. males, have it made, and of no effort of their own; its the system that keeps them in power and the diversity crowd down. It was his personal defense and counter argument that got the charges (hate speech, she even called him a White, Christian bigot in the email) in the news. And him on Jerry's drive time show.

[Vesuvian]

Thank you sir, you honor me, and I will do my best!

[kelcey]

If this has been going on since the seventies how come nothing has been done about this. This cannot be okay. It is like brainwashing and on top of that it is making so many students feel that their whole moral and belief system is wrong and that to suceed they need to change. Literally you either have to completely agree with the teachers, pretend you do or completely stay out of it, which is not possible since many assign you work that is only possible to do leftist. For example here are some assignments I have been forced to do in the last year or else I would fail the class or lower my grade extremely:
a paper on "Why gays should be aloud to marry" You had to say why you thought ut was a good idea in a minimum of 5 pages wether you agreed or not, there was no option of "why you don't think gays should be allowed to mary".
A list of the top ten reasons (with information to back them up) on why you think the current president was wrong in declaring war on Iraq.
In some of my more difficult classes the teacher will offer extra credit, only it is such things as participating in an anti-war demonsration or pro-choice demonstartion for 20 extra points. The only other option for extra credit this proffessor offered was to write at the end of the semster (this was a political science American Government course) a paper on "how this class has better helped you to understand what is wrong with the current administration running the country". That was all, so I and several other students did not have an oppertunity to earn extra credit. When we confronted her, she said that just because we participated in one of these activities does not mean that we have to agree with it and that as the teacher she has the final say. I could literally go on and on and on and on. I recently this current semester have been tape recording my classes. At first this was simply to help me study better. However I have only been in this semster 4 weeks and have already saved 17 statements or in a few cases whole discussions/lectures on such things as bush slashing, the Iraq situation, negative comments about any moderate or right wing parties, just everything you could imagine. I even have one of my proffessors asking me to keep my opinions to myself because it will do nothing but waste time on information that is irrelavent. It is complete, bullstuff. How is it okay for teachers (who are suppossed to be role models) to tell us what views and beliefs are right and wrong and give us lower grades or not equal oppertunities because we do not agree with their political views. How is it okay for teachers to embarress and bellittle and talk down to students because the support our troops, or Bush or even just don't agree with one aspect of the teachers leftist political view. What, I have to be some damn peace loving, leftist, hippie, liberal to have a fair oppertunity in college. That or be told I am wrong, ignorant, not raised right, to be quiet, or even kicked out of the class. Yeah, money well spent on classes that are suppossed to be teaching and educating me on actual history, science, sociology, anthropolgy. Instead I have enjoyed two years so far of Liberal education.

[EggsAckley]

Your questions, and your outrage are appropriate and commendable. I don't know how it could have been averted. I am from the generation of the Baby Boomers who now are running everything. I became a Republican back in the 70s when I saw what John Kerry was doing. *HE* made me see the light.

I remember when I started English 1A in Junior college in 1963, and my professor was a black gentleman, a bit of an oddity in my town, btw. I liked him; he was smart, erudite, and well-spoken. BUT.....our first assignment was to write a 10 page paper on why "Negroes" were inferior people.

I was stunned! I couldn't write that paper because I didn't think they were! After all, he was just about the first black person this little 17-year-old had met! I flunked.

So you see, it goes waaaaay back. I don't have any answers as to how we "let" it get that way. I had friends who wanted to go into teaching, as did I, but we couldn't stomach the pressure the administration would put on us to teach "their" way. As a boomer, I'm sorry we let this happen. I apologize!

[kuma]

I think the solution lies in abandoning liberal universities. Their tuitions are already over-priced and if they were left altogether they would have to sky-rocket or close down. We have to ask ourselves if Harvard shutting down could be considered a loss. I don't think so.

No one can convince me that a degree from these schools hold the same prestige that they used to. We conservatives will just have to take it upon ourselves to build new colleges and universities to pick up the task of furthering education in our country. What about all those conservative professors who can't get hired at leftist schools? They should band together and start their own with high standards that would quickly make it clear to employers that they would rather hire those students at graduation time.

[kelcey]

I do not think that a generation should take blame. But I do think that more awarness about this should be raised and that it is never to late to change something that is wrong. First I just need to figure out what can be done. The website where students can post their experiences is great, however most people do not even know that it exsists. I came onto it by mistake when I was looking up information about what it meant to be a conservative.
Sometimes I get so frusterated in class that I want to stand up and knock the crap out of the teacher (however I would never ever do such a thing). That or lock them in a closet before class and teach it for them.

[driftless]

As a graduate of a small midwestern college which took me twentyfive years to matriculate through, I can strongly assent to the assertion that most college profs are libs. They're not all bad or obnoxious, and many are quite good teachers. But liberal they are, and too many go over the line. I should add that a goodly number are actually Marxists. Not a few of my ex-profs defended Castro and one old history prof of mine praised Stalin. It's a fact of college life, and conservative students will just have to adjust because it's not going to change anytime soon.

[kuma]

I disagree about "getting used to it". My question is why should someone go into debt paying exorbant amounts of money to be indoctrinated. It used to be so that debate and discussion were considered key to an education. Debate skills were a necessity, not avoided because you may offend someone.

Giving up and getting used to it has gotten this country where it is right now which is obviously not good. I would suggest searching around for a better school.

[joesnuffy]

I ended up taking a lot of hard science classes

Things havent changed a bit....math and hard science are places of refuge (for the most part)...Its amazing how much liberal dogma they can still sneak into the verbal portions of text books and lectures....

[BipolarBob]

Growing up in the South(graduated HS in '72) it was taken for granted that teachers were supposed to teach you HOW to think not WHAT to think. Unfortunately today my children (unbekownst to me until it was too late) were taught early on that hunting was evil. Now I have a son I would like to take hunting with me, but he has been brainwashed that hunting is bad. By the way one of these liberal nitwits left my child behind-by mistake- on a out-of-state field trip. Wasn't smart enough to do a headcount.
I could go on and on. What's the use?