Posted on 02/25/2019 9:41:52 AM PST by blam
According to a recently published investigative report, leftist interest groups are secretly playing a major role at many American Universities, often funded in part by mandatory student fees.
According to a report by the Capital Research Center, “public interest research groups” are playing a silent yet major role at many major American universities. The report makes the case that these interest groups use universities and their students to advance a progressive partisan agenda.
Public interest research groups often raise funds via dishonest or deceitful methods. For example, many groups are funded by mandatory student fees. According to the report, the New York Public Interest Research Group has been able to raise $1 million each year from mandatory student fees.
As David Seidemann, an environmental science professor at Brooklyn College, wrote in 2016: “administrators at public universities across the country have granted [the PIRGs] unique campus privileges and funneled millions of dollars—in part, from mandatory student fees.” As a result, the New York chapter of PIRG (NYPIRG) now “raises more money than all other campus student groups and surreptitiously diverts those funds to its statewide lobbying operations”—as much as $1 million forcibly raised from the pockets of college students each year.
Many of these groups are using these funds to promote a partisan political agenda, such as the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group. This group, which was founded in 1972, utilizes its resources on campuses to encourage young college students to support Democratic candidates for public office.
MASSPIRG is one of the largest and oldest state PIRGs, created in 1972. It markets itself as “an independent voice for consumers” and has lobbied for various environmentalist policies, including a plan to run the University of Massachusetts system with 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.
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Lois Lerner is still laughing.
These Leftist ‘public interest research groups’ have been supported by universities since at least the early ‘70s.
Leftists Indoctrination Centers.
There is very little real education taking place.
Well, it’s time we put an end to the funding.
Glad my college days were before this hooey.
I believe the point is that the Left is running the Universities, and in my observation, at least since the early 60’s.
“...many groups are funded by mandatory student fees. According to the report, the New York Public Interest Research Group has been able to raise $1 million each year from mandatory student fees.”
Oh, Hell No! This is as BS as BS gets!
Frankfurt School minions and cultural Marxist cultists as so very pleased this is happening.
They are teaching ‘Pure Insane Hate’.
Yes, they basically took the model they developed with unions—funding political activism from “dues” extracted from workers compelled to join the union—and applied it to student groups.
The next time conservatives have the votes in Congress, they need to pass a law banning any federally-funded university from using tuition, fees, or federal tax dollars from use in any political activism or to fund any group that engages in political activism.
In other news, dogs poop on the sidewalk.
In other news, dogs poop on the sidewalk.
My college days were in the mid-70s, and a portion of our Student Activity Fees was going to support an organization that offered literal Soviet propaganda literature to us in the dining hall.
For now. Thanks blam.
Report: Leftist Interest Groups Calling The Shots At Many American Universities
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Noo. Really?
Knock me over with a feather!
Started long before that at big name colleges, there was a pause when WW II started and continued through GI Bill vets left college. Came on with a vengeance in the 50's for sure.
And, parents are paying for them to do it.
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