Posted on 11/27/2009 7:32:15 AM PST by YoungGunConservativeRadio
Marvin Olasky has touched upon a brilliant meme in terms of academia. As the universities and colleges have been hijacked by the Left, perhaps it is time to consider charter colleges. It would certainly improve the quality of education, considering the generation of know-nothings schools are producing these days.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
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From what I can tell, colleges and universities are private businesses for the most part anyway. There’s nothing to stop someone from opening their own college or university and teaching whatever they want. The only hurdle would be getting accreditation, or alternatively convincing the public that their not having accreditation is a political issue, not an issue of their academic content.
The tenure process is an ideological vetting. Eliminate tenure and the leftist stranglehold on academia goes away in a generation.
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