[clintonbaiter]

Time to take back our universities. Let's use the Internet, and people pwower, to terminate tenure for radical professors just like we terminated 'The Reagans' mini-series on CBS.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[AndyObermann]

Good point. Here at my campus, especially in the history department (my major), there is definitely a leftward slant. There is no way around it. From time to time I debate it and argue, but most times I just sit back and bite my lip...no sense in arguing with the senseless.

[ladylib]

A student can take "an English course on "man's desire...to take, order, idealize and copy nature's bounty while humanizing, plundering and destroying the environment"

Parents and students have to ask themselves if it is really worth putting themselves into thousands of dollars of debt for joke courses like this.

I suppose it is if you're willing to play the game for four more years and the degree is more important than the education.

[CatoRenasci]

The problem with reports such as this, which are true as far as they go, is twofold: 1) a college degree is a credential absolutely required in this society for further education and/or jobs (other than sales) above the menial level; and 2) one of the most important aspects of a college education is the the student body, in terms of mutual growth and learning and in terms of making future connections, whether in terms of a spouse, friends or long term social class.

Unless one comes from the highest reaches of inherited wealth (and possibly even then) it is impossible to achieve upper-middle class or higher social status in America without a degree from a "good" college or university.

[ladylib]

And then go after public schools on the primary and secondary level.

This is a little off topic, but today I watched a program hosted by Pat Summeral on education and business. One of the segments showed a K12 system in Kansas with a highly developed technical program. Computers are integrated into every aspect of the students' day. The children had a TV studio.

One of the things that this school does is have children work in groups for just about everything. One girl said that she couldn't reach her goals unless she worked as part of a team. The brainwashing that she is being clobbered with is that an individual can't succeed in setting and meeting individual goals, that you must be a member of a team.

She will be lost in life as far as goal-setting and achievement are concerned because she can only function as part of the collective.

Just awful. Awful and frightening.

[neverdem]

Here's a related link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946557/posts

[JoJo Gunn]

That web site absolutely sucks.

I hate frames!

[El Conservador]

Thank God I chose civil engineering as my major!!!

[philetus]

College education? WHAZZZA?

[k2fourever]

The thing is, all the kids who attend these schools (well, the vast majority) are children of liberal parents who have had everything handed to them their whole lives. The are already lost to the dark side.

Speaking as a college sophomore, I see this far too well. I have some good (ultra-conservative) friends who are attending Liberal Arts colleges due to sports scholarships. At least twice a week I'll get an instant message asking me if it is against the law to beat commies. If a conservative opinion is even thought on campus, the student is ridiculed by not only other students, but professors as well.

Parents, look hard at schools with religious affiliations. At least here (here being BC in my case) we have some semblance of balance in the political sphere.

[aquila48]

bump for later read

[Porterville]

If you know how to use college, an education is worth the bankroll. If you let your kids just take liberal arts classes, you are letting your kid take on a life of meritocracy and depression. However, less competition for me