Posted on 02/09/2005 6:09:51 PM PST by wagglebee
A proposed bill of rights aimed at protecting college students from political indoctrination in the classroom is being actively debated in more than 20 states, including New York.
The "Academic Bill of Rights" calls for students to be graded based on their reasoning and not their political beliefs. The measure also requires that professors offer diverse reading lists and "not use their courses for the purpose of political, ideological, religious or anti-religious indoctrination."
The proposal, which was drafted by a conservative author and activist from California, David Horowitz, also seeks to upend ideological conformity on campuses by insisting that decisions to hire and fire be made without regard to an academic's political views.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Amen.
They are firmly entrenched
This will only have a chance to get thru while we have the WH, Congress and senate - but has to be sponsored by a congress or senator -
we need to all get the wording - and demand it of our "representatives" now -
Just looking at this from the prism of my background (English) suggests all sorts of problems. Who decides what the diverse reading list is? Where do differences in interpretation become political indoctrination? If a Prof. is teaching Dresiser or Steinbeck is someone going to complain that they are indoctrinating them with socialist propaganda? I'm leery of this thing. The way to fight the problem is more conservatives going into the humanities end of Academia...where they should be able to teach what they want how they see fit without having to be 'diverse'.
I find it ridiculous that these 60's draft dodgers are in charge of our children's/grand children's grades! And have been for the last 20 years. These are the same one's that promote diversity and then destroy the future hopes of any one who disagrees with them.
What audacity!
I had an International Studies prof. whose lectures were basically weekly recruiting drives for Young Dems. We need this "bill of rights" on every campus.
I got lucky, I went to an extremely conservative college (Hampden-Sydney in Virginia). I had a professor who was in the Special Forces in Vietnam and kept a piece of shrapnel he pulled out of his leg as a paperweight, he lived on a 200 acre farm with a shooting range in the back. The president of the college openly referred to Massachusetts as a People's Republic, his name is Josiah Bunting and he later had the misfortune of being the Commandant who had to oversee the forced coeducation of Virginia Military Institute. All said, it was a great place to be, there were no liberal professors or students.
Hell, that's no good they start in Pre K with indoctrination, by the time they get to college it is too late for most
Bill of Rights to shut up?
Academic Freedom Resources
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
http://www.thefire.org/
NoIndoctrination.Org
http://www.noindoctrination.org/index.shtml
Students for Academic Freedom
http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/
If anybody has any other groups like this, let me know...I am collecting groups.
Don't know when it started but they are showing the Boulder Colo. rally with Churchill on C-span right now--
I certainly hope this goes through everywhere. Tenure is one of the most abused systems in this country and it's the students who pay the price.
What exactly does "tenure" mean and why is it held so sacred? Fire the idiot anyway, f**k tenure, he can eat that in the bathroom.
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