I attended a psychology conference last year, and went to a session for new
professors, which was supposed to discuss issues new teachers face.
Topics discussed included: "how do we "reach" students in the intro
classes, because by the time they get to the 200 level, they may not be as
malleable," "how do we criticize the war and the military without upsetting students who have relatives serving," "how do we tell conservative students all of their values are wrong," and "how to go about forcing students to volunteeer for instructors' liberal pet causes."
That was before the Iraq war "debate" at lunch time, and the post-lunch speech by a black professor who argued evangelicals will roll back Brown v. Board of Ed. Very educational conference. Those were only a few of the highlights.
Yikes! Worse than I imagined!
I know how serious this is--I have a sister who teaches at a private ivy league liberal arts college and she tells me this kind of stuff is de riguer for faculty meetings. She herself is a dyed in the wool liberal, but even she has problems with the blatant bias and indoctrination.
One particularly egregious example stands out--after 9/11, a special meeting was called for all tenured and non-tenured professors to discuss how to deal with America's culpability without seeming unsympathetic to the victims (several students lost relatives in the WTC--this is a college located north of Manhattan).
A woman's studies teacher announced her intention to share with her students her "outrage" at what she called "the male dominated first responder images" and planned to use those to foment resentment toward the media.
Incredible, isn't it? Instead of seeing sacrifice, courage, and incredible heroism, this foul creature saw only that there more men than women in the NYFD and NYPD. And found something wrong with that!