Posted on 01/03/2012 11:07:43 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Whether he wins the Iowa Caucuses or not, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has apparently hit a raw nerve in higher education. “Let’s look at colleges and universities,” he said in Mason City, Iowa. “They’ve become indoctrination centers for the left.”
“Should we be subsidizing that?” Evidently, merely calling for shutting off the federal spondulix is tantamount to repression.
“Santorum shows his great commitment to the First Amendment by declaring that the federal government should punish institutions for their ideology,” John Wilson writes on the academe blog. “If colleges aren’t supporting Republican ideas, Santorum tells us, the government should de-fund them.”
“I’m not sure how that would work: perhaps every college would be required each year to fill out the proper bureaucratic Ideology Forms and be accredited by Republican officials as sufficiently conservative to receive government funds.” Wilson is with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
Tellingly, Wilson’s paraphrase is longer than the original quote. Santorum’s broadside comes on the heels of the release of two interesting studies.
Campaign Money.com tracked the political contributions of college professors since 1999. The web site reveals that only 10 percent of their gifts went to Republicans.
Meanwhile, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) graded more than 1,000 colleges and universities on their course offerings. “Fewer than 20 schools out of 1,007 receive ‘A’ ratings, while almost 90 receive an ‘F,’” ACTA reports. “Less than 20 % of schools require students to study American government or history—even though the U. S. Department of Education recently found that 55% of graduating high school seniors lack even basic knowledge of the subject.”
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Right on, right on.
Do it to it, Rick! Woot!!!
Idiot. It's completely the other way 'round: it isn't the responsibility of government to support ANYTHING they say, do, or represent. But especially if (since) they express a definite slant, then it's important to make their ideas stand on their on financial feet. You know, even as I write that, I realize it's not relevant... the Constitution does not permit the Federal Government to subsidize education. That's it.
Liberals are seriously retarded in terms of their thinking process. Santorum being unhappy with liberal ideology being taught in the schools means one of 2 things:
a) Santorum wants it stopped and conservative ideology to be taught instead(ie: right wing indoctrination).
b) Santorum wants all indoctrination in higher education to stop and universities or colleges to actually EDUCATE people.
The retarded liberal academic obviously assumes ‘a’ to be true because he fears his commie gravy train coming to a halt. In reality, conservatives just want university or college to get back to educating people. People wonder why US schools are falling behind in the world and churning out idiots. It’s because the liberals run the show!
Go Rick! Go Newt! (By far, the CONSERVATIVE brains in the race.)
If IA chooses Liberal/$50 Abortioner Willard or Racist/Israel Hater Ron for 1st, they will be looked upon as stupid and a complete joke as well as a waste of CONSERVATIVE’S time in the future.
Exactly.
Don’t much like RS as a candidate, but I applaud this broadside he fired and would welcome more of it from all the candidates. Big education shames big oil and big pharma when it comes to greed and corruption.
No, twit. If colleges aren’t supporting AMERICAN ideas, the government should de-fund them.
Sounds good to me. There is very little free speech going on in America’s universities.
A hit dog howls. Big Leftist Education can dish it out, maligning conservatives and especially Christian conservatives, but they can’t take it. Santorum should be rewarded for his courage.
As Rick Santorium explained, it is the universities that indoctrinate the future news twisters of America. As they turn the Commies with pencils behind their ears out to the public, the universities do enormous damage while charging obscene prices for the garabage indoctrination (see the idiotic pronouncements of senatorial candidate and Harvard professor, Elizabeth Warren).
I wish Accuracy in Academia much success.
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