Posted on 02/24/2017 5:09:29 PM PST by blam
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos offered few details of her views on higher education during her confirmation hearings.
But on Thursday, in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, she sharply criticized faculty members and accused them trying to indoctrinate students.
She devoted only a paragraph to higher education in a relatively short speech, but she captured lots of attention. Here's what she said, after asking how many in the audience were college students:
"The fight against the education establishment extends to you too. The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think. They say that if you voted for Donald Trump, you’re a threat to the university community. But the real threat is silencing the First Amendment rights of people with whom you disagree."
DeVos opened her speech by saying that she wasn't worried about what "the mainstream media has called me lately."
Past education secretaries have offered plenty of criticism of higher education. Both Margaret Spellings (under a Republican administration) and Arne Duncan (under a Democratic administration) have raised questions about college costs, accountability and measures of student learning. But secretaries after William J. Bennett (in President Reagan's second term) have not generally been culture warriors. The CPAC crowd loved the speech and cheered DeVos on.
The American Council on Education declined to comment. As did the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a group that has criticized many colleges as not being sufficiently committed to free speech.
Via email, Michael B. Poliakoff, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a group that has argued for a traditional and more rigorous college curriculum, expressed sympathy for some of what DeVos discussed. "Our colleges must do a better job preparing graduates...
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NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR THESE UNIVERSITIES
Wow, a major league home run hitter.
It’s great to see her address the leftist agenda in education. Hopefully more good things to come in confronting the censorship and attempts to brainwash.
There are no doubts in my mind from the first year of school all the way through college this is happening all over America. Especially in schools that are covered by Unions and tenure.
Talks cheap, but I have confidence in the git’er done attitude of this administration to make serious inroads into these indoctrination centers, er, universities.
Betsy DeVos is doing a great job!
Make the Uni's co-sign for loans to their students.
yes.
Professors???. . .a great number of classes are taught by grad assistants. . .some can’t even speak English!!!!
This is why the NEA, media and left wingers hate Betsy, because she isn’t going to continue the wasteful spending and leftist agenda.
Thank you Betsy!!! Keep going and finish the job, we love you!
Another Great Feature of Obamacare
I quit as a Junior Achievement mentor because every training module was pure globalist propaganda.
Has it been confirmed that DeVos pushed to keep the awful guidelines to allow dudes into the girls bathrooms,locker rooms and showers?
Before the Federal government provides any grants or loans they should establish a set of conditions or requisites before applications are to be considered. Money talks. Use it as leverage to change these schools and universities.
I work for a major University, and while there are a few conservatives in the professional schools and some Libertarian types in Computer Science, DeVos is right on the money with most of her criticism.
It’s so true.
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