College discrimination against conservatives leads to a poorer education

 NY Post Editorial:

Need more evidence that US campuses actively silence conservatives? Then take a look at a stunning new report by the higher-ed watchdog Campus Reform.

The report notes that at SUNY-Albany last year, 64 speakers identified as liberal were handed the podium, vs. just two conservatives.

Many of the speakers were officials who’d worked in the Obama administration, including two Environmental Protection Agency regional directors and the head of Customs and Border Protection.

Events included discussions on “marginalized communities,” “barriers to naturalization for low-income immigrants” and “gender and sexuality from a Jewish lens.”

Part of the reason for the skew, the report says, is the school’s “Strategic Plan,” which calls for a more “diverse” and “inclusive” campus. By “inclusive,” SUNY apparently means: let almost no conservatives speak.

SUNY-Albany is hardly unique: In 2016-17, liberal speakers outnumbered conservatives 44-4 at the University of Indiana, 30-9 at George Washington University, 9-2 at Alabama and 44-2 at Vermont, Campus Reform also found.

And colleges don’t just favor left-wing speakers: A study last April by Brooklyn College’s Mitchell Langbert of 8,688 tenure-track professors at top liberal-arts colleges found that, of those enrolled in a political party, 10 times as many were Democrats as Republicans. Some 39 percent of the colleges had no GOPers at all.

No wonder a 2017 Gallup poll showed 92 percent of students believe liberals can speak freely on campus but only 69 percent say that’s true for conservatives.
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I get the feeling I got a much better education than what is currently offered.  I graduated from high school in 1963 in the post Sputnik era where there was more concentration on math and science and they still taught geography and history.

At the University of Texas, there was no shortage of liberals but there were also professors who had experienced the horrors of Nazism and communism.  The course I took on the government and politics of the Soviet Union was taught by the former Secretary of State to Czechoslovakia.  He had escaped to Moscow after his country was overrun by the Germans and talked about dining with Stalin and the real-life impact of communism.  A history course on Europe during the first half of the 20th century was taught by a Jewish historian who had survived the Holocaust.

It is unfortunate that today's students are denied access to witnesses to history with a different perspective from the liberalism that dominates today's education system.