Group names top 10 conservative colleges ( Schools that shun curricula favored by Liberals)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 12/15/2005

[SirLinksalot]

Group names top 10 conservative colleges

Schools said to shun curricula favored by 'liberal academia'

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

A noted conservative organization has released a list of the top 10 colleges and universities it says espouse like-minded social and political beliefs.

"Each year, hundreds of thousands of students begin their college search. Admission guides, seminars, advice from friends and help from advisers all offer different perspectives. Presented with so many options, confusion often clouds this important decision-making process," says the Young America's Foundation, a Virginia-based group that promotes "traditional values" to the nation's young adults.

"Many conservative students seek alternatives in higher education, but they may not be fully aware of institutions that fit these criteria," says the organization.

According to YAF, the schools offering the best conservative experience are:

Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich.

Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.

Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio

Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind.

Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif.

Harding University in Searcy, Ark.

College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo.

Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va.

Christendom College in Front Royal, Va. Colleges deserving of an "honorable mention" include Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa.; Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Ky.; Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va.; and King's College in New York City.

"To be selected, a college must proclaim, through its mission and programs, an active dedication to maintaining and strengthening the conservative values of its students," YAF says.

"The listed colleges offer an alternative to the liberal status quo, because they allow and encourage conservative students to explore conservative ideas and authors," said the group.

The selected schools "offer coursework and scholarship in conservative thought and emphasize principles of smaller government, strong national defense, free enterprise and traditional values."

Furthermore, the group said, "they avoid trends in academe by continuing to study Western Civilization instead of straying toward the study of Marxism, feminism, sexuality, postmodernism and other modern distractions that do not give students a complete understanding of our country, our culture, and its founding principles."

By comparison, the Princeton Review has identified the 10 most politically liberal colleges and universities. They are:

Mills College in Oakland, Calif.

Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

New College of Florida in Sarasota, Fla.

Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.

Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina

Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.

Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif.

Reed College in Portland, Ore.

Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vt.

Earlham College in Richmond, Ind.

The Review says "students at these 10 schools wear their mantles of liberalism with pride." According to its "annual survey of college students, students at these schools can never veer too far left of mainstream."

Students at Bard College, the Review noted in one example, said they were "more concerned with the terrorism for which our government is responsible than the terrorism that targets the United States."

[Steve_Seattle]

Fr. Scanlon

Yes, I remember now how he scoped the place out, mingled with students and faculty to get a feel for the lifestyle and general attitude, then formulated a game plan and took it to the administration with a take-it-or-leave-it proposal for reform. They took it, and it probably saved the school from closure.

[Steve_Seattle]

There's a place called Magdalen College that's also pretty conservative; they advertize in National Review.

[proud_yank]

Ahhh... I want to go back! I'll have to ask my sister to bring me some pastys!!

[Steve_Seattle]

"My niece, after spending 3 semesters at University of North Carolina - Greensboro shocked me at Thanksgiving with her calls for the DEATH of the President. Called himn a lair and a murderer."

Reminds me of a girl from my high school who I remembered as a very sweet, intelligent person. Then I saw her a few years later after she'd gone to the U-Dub, and she'd been transformed into an angry, cynical, sneering radical feminist. It was sad.

[Timmy]

Thank you. Yes, she is home-schooled. And one of her reasons for going to PHC is their renowned Moot Court team. She won the moot court competition at the Virginia Beach Teenpact Judicial camp this past summer. She has three years of mock trial experience (we have a local home-schooling attorney who puts together a team, last year they beat the two large local high schools and went to state competition for the third consecutive year she has participated) and dreams of being a constitutional lawyer.

[Timmy]

Thank you very much. I will try to keep the board up on her experiences (she's a Daddy's girl so I'll get a lot of info).

[Trust but Verify]

Of course the shooting range is indoors in the UP. It's a frozen land.

[Trust but Verify]

Ha! Hillsdale College. Wasn't the President of that school caught up in some sort of sordid sex scandal just a few years back? Yikes!

[FormerACLUmember]

"College, the best seven years of my life."

[John D]

I think this link has turned into a link of our GREAT memories of the UP. I would love to meet all of you. I will be traveling through the UP this summer(I go through about once every couple of years). If any of you still live up there send me a private reply. I would like to meet you and buy you an adult beverage at the Library, or any other place of your choice in the UP. I usually spend most of my time in Marquette, but I also know people in Escanaba. Let me know.

[Ramcat]

Interesting that three of the most conservative (two top ten and one honorable mention) are located in the "Cradle of Civilization" near SW PA.

[Timmy]

Thank you. Again, we're very proud of her. Actually, PHC is about 90% homeschoolers (there are about 275 students on campus). It was started by Michael Farris (founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association). She took a summer class at PHC when she was 15. It was Constitutional Law and was taught by Dr. Farris himself, who has argued before the Supreme Court and who was in the Oval Office when the Partial Birth Abortion ban was signed by Bush. He gave her an A+ on the final and asked her to consider coming to school there. It was one of her proudest achievements (along with her 1560 SAT and being named a National Merit Scholar - well, there I go bragging again . . . ). But the quality of kids going to PHC is extremely high, and they consider themselves the equal of any Ivy League school in terms of students and learning.

[exit82]

Nor my alma mater: Inclined Plane College.

We just called it Screw U.

[Seamoth]

Evergreen was my first thought too. Yikes!

[Seamoth]

While I have sympathy, professors don't brainwash any minds except extremely weak minds. Your sister/brother are the ones who failed here.

[Seamoth]

Went to both a liberal & a relatively conservative college (it was actually about as liberal as the 1990s Democratic party, which is uber-conservative in academia)... it was a lot easier to be a conservative in the former than the latter, because the professors & students were such parodies of themselves.

[Slings and Arrows]

FWIW, Mike Adams refers to UNC-G as University of North Carolina - Gomorrah.

[Aquinasfan]

There's a place called Magdalen College that's also pretty conservative; they advertize in National Review.

Yup. Magdalene and Thomas More are very small, but they're very close to us, so I'm thinking of them for my daughters. Plus, they're both relatively inexpensive. $15k/year for tuition and room and board.

[Ben Chad]

You'll be pleased that your namesake is on this list.

[PatrickHenry]

You'll be pleased that your namesake is on this list.

It's a grand old name.