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As a conservative who teaches at a pretty liberal campus, I'm concerned when the government gets involved. First, I've seen enough laws of "unintended effects" to know that rules and regulations are bent by those in power on campus to the detriment of the rest of us; and second, I don't think change will come through this approach anyway.

I don't know HOW it will come, only I have faith that it will come. Remember that 20 years ago, no one foresaw the end of the MSM.

As a conservative who teaches at a pretty liberal campus, I'm concerned when the government gets involved.

This is a red herring. The government is already involved. Academics are simply loathe to admit it. However, do the mental exercise. What happens when an altercation between a prof and a student happens? Naturally, given the imbalance of power, the student is flunked out. The university then encourages the student to perform a "grade appeal." The grade appeal process in most cases is a kangaroo court resulting in a denial of the appeal. The courts are lax in overseeing this area of administrative law-- see Kaplin, William, "A Legal Guide for Student Affairs Professionals" (with Barbara A. Lee) (Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1997). Case law is weighted towards cut and dried cases of academic lack of merit, without regard to invididual student rights, which therefore become devalued since there is no incentive in the courts to uphold them. The universities know this and take advantage of this (most universities taking taxpayer funds in doing so), hence the 'Ward Churchill' phenomenon will become more frequent (not less frequent) with time, unless and until the problem is fixed.

The modern university is no longer a place of higher learning. It is a place in which, by and large from the student perspective, collectivist political indoctrination runs unchecked. This is counter to principles that some may be familiar with-- just to take one example, 'no taxation without representation' comes to mind.