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Posted on 05/07/2023 5:09:35 AM PDT by karpov
Earlier this week, the Florida legislature passed a bill that may become a model for the nation. House Bill 931, sponsored by State Representative Spencer Roach, requires universities to host public-policy debates and bans the use of political litmus tests in hiring and admissions.
Both provisions address the increasing ideological homogeneity on college campuses. In the past three decades, university faculty and administrators have become overwhelmingly liberal. This orthodoxy of opinion is bad for academic research, student learning, and universities’ reputations in the eyes of the public.
The bill is inspired by two pieces of model legislation. Its first part is based on the Campus Intellectual Diversity Act, written by Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and published by the National Association of Scholars. Kurtz explains the legislation thusly:
Universities can be directed to establish an Office of Public Policy Events (or to assign its duties to an existing administrative office). The new office would have two key responsibilities. First, the office should arrange for debates, panel discussions, and individual lectures from a wide diversity of viewpoints on current public-policy disputes. Participants should be drawn from across the political spectrum, but the office should give particular attention to inviting speakers who hold viewpoints otherwise poorly represented on campus. Second, the office should compile and make public a list not only of the events that it sponsors, but of all events related to public affairs on the campus as a whole. Any debate, policy forum, or individual speaking event open to the entire campus community should be included on the list, with the topic, event title, participants, affiliations, and sponsorship noted.
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Good bill!
I have a client who was a college professor. He’s conservative but was put thru the ringer and tested to see what his leanings were. He faked it every step of the way. After 2 years he left. Couldn’t take it.
This would have been a good idea 40-50 years ago. Now it is nowhere near enough. The faculty and admins are already overwhelmingly Leftist. The state needs to actively FORCE it in the opposite direction.
Include diversity of thought in the other diversity requirements. That would force universities to hire nothing but Conservatives for at least a couple decades to restore the balance.
Cops won't arrest. DAs won't bring charges. Juries won't convict. Judges won't sentence.
Of all the above, two things merict our attention: Impeaching judges (very hard) and jury nullification (our last resort).
Yay Florida!!!
(I wasn’t born here, but I got here as quick as I could!)
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