If he goes to Wisconsin, he should be wary if he majors in history. The history department there has been a hotbed of radicalism since the nineteenth century. Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and William Appleman Williams were on its faculty, and and ultra-leftist Cold War revisionist Gabriel Kolko was one of its products.
I had an engineering prof who had just come from Wisconsin when I was in college. At the time, the state of Wisconsin was running a tourism promotion campaign with the tagline “Escape to Wisconsin.” He had taken one of the bumper stickers and hacked it to read “Escape Wisconsin.” He was no friend of the rampant Leftism at the university of.