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Group names top 10 conservative colleges ( Schools that shun curricula favored by Liberals)
Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 12/15/2005

Posted on 12/16/2005 9:36:15 AM PST by SirLinksalot

Group names top 10 conservative colleges

Schools said to shun curricula favored by 'liberal academia'

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

A noted conservative organization has released a list of the top 10 colleges and universities it says espouse like-minded social and political beliefs.

"Each year, hundreds of thousands of students begin their college search. Admission guides, seminars, advice from friends and help from advisers all offer different perspectives. Presented with so many options, confusion often clouds this important decision-making process," says the Young America's Foundation, a Virginia-based group that promotes "traditional values" to the nation's young adults.

"Many conservative students seek alternatives in higher education, but they may not be fully aware of institutions that fit these criteria," says the organization.

According to YAF, the schools offering the best conservative experience are:

Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich.

Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.

Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio

Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind.

Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif.

Harding University in Searcy, Ark.

College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo.

Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va.

Christendom College in Front Royal, Va. Colleges deserving of an "honorable mention" include Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa.; Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Ky.; Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va.; and King's College in New York City.

"To be selected, a college must proclaim, through its mission and programs, an active dedication to maintaining and strengthening the conservative values of its students," YAF says.

"The listed colleges offer an alternative to the liberal status quo, because they allow and encourage conservative students to explore conservative ideas and authors," said the group.

The selected schools "offer coursework and scholarship in conservative thought and emphasize principles of smaller government, strong national defense, free enterprise and traditional values."

Furthermore, the group said, "they avoid trends in academe by continuing to study Western Civilization instead of straying toward the study of Marxism, feminism, sexuality, postmodernism and other modern distractions that do not give students a complete understanding of our country, our culture, and its founding principles."

By comparison, the Princeton Review has identified the 10 most politically liberal colleges and universities. They are:

Mills College in Oakland, Calif.

Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

New College of Florida in Sarasota, Fla.

Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.

Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina

Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.

Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif.

Reed College in Portland, Ore.

Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vt.

Earlham College in Richmond, Ind.

The Review says "students at these 10 schools wear their mantles of liberalism with pride." According to its "annual survey of college students, students at these schools can never veer too far left of mainstream."

Students at Bard College, the Review noted in one example, said they were "more concerned with the terrorism for which our government is responsible than the terrorism that targets the United States."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: colleges; conservative; conservativestudents; grovecity; highereducation; libertyu; patrickhenrycollege; phc; regentu; top; topten
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1 posted on 12/16/2005 9:36:18 AM PST by SirLinksalot
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To: SirLinksalot

What about my Alma Mater, Michigan, in the People's Republic of Ann Arbor?


2 posted on 12/16/2005 9:38:08 AM PST by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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To: SirLinksalot

I don't always agree with Jerry Falwell, but I grew up near Lynchburg, and watching what he's done with Liberty University is pretty remarkable. Zero to 10,000+ students in 35 years (founded in 1971) and some pretty solid academic programs to boot.

}:-)4


3 posted on 12/16/2005 9:39:43 AM PST by Moose4 (Liberals and vampires: Both like death, both hate crosses, and both are bloodsuckers.)
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To: SirLinksalot

What? No College of St. Thomas More? The liberals of this student population are the ones who...wait a sec. I don't know any liberals on campus!
Of course, YAF could have been looking for colleges with a student body of over fifty students.
And yes, it is accredited.


4 posted on 12/16/2005 9:40:02 AM PST by PalestrinaGal0317 (We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity-Ann Coulter)
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To: Kermit the Frog Does theWatusi

CampusWatch ping.


5 posted on 12/16/2005 9:40:12 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Mikey_1962
What about my alma-mater? Excellent, and fairly conservative school. Hey, we even had our own indoor shooting range, on campus!


6 posted on 12/16/2005 9:40:45 AM PST by proud_yank ("The government dole will rot your soul" --Stan Rogers, 'The Idiot')
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To: SirLinksalot
Colleges deserving of an "honorable mention" include Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; . . . .

I would have thought BYU would make the Top 10. But Top-15 isn't bad.

7 posted on 12/16/2005 9:42:49 AM PST by Logophile
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To: SirLinksalot
My daughter enters Patrick Henry College next fall.
8 posted on 12/16/2005 9:43:23 AM PST by Timmy
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To: Mikey_1962

Or mine, the University of Akron??

/sarcasm


9 posted on 12/16/2005 9:44:30 AM PST by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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To: RockinRight

Fear the Roo! *snicker*


10 posted on 12/16/2005 9:46:23 AM PST by brownsfan (It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
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To: SirLinksalot

I am astonished that Evergreen State College (alma mater of Roadkill Corrie) didn't make the Top 10 list of liberal schools. The thought that there are at least ten schools that are MORE liberal that ESC boggles the mind.


11 posted on 12/16/2005 9:49:46 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("MOO...BANG...MOOO!")
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To: proud_yank

Probably because not enough people know where Houghton is.


12 posted on 12/16/2005 9:49:59 AM PST by John D
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To: SirLinksalot

I had a former friend who went to Warren Wilson College, she left a middle of the road meat eating all-American girl, she returned a vegan, radical leftest, who could not stop lecturing about the evils of America. That is why she is a former friend.


13 posted on 12/16/2005 9:51:47 AM PST by Sthitch
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To: All

Just an FYI,

Indiana Wesleyan has also developed really good on-line degree programs.


14 posted on 12/16/2005 9:51:55 AM PST by Madeleine Ward
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To: SirLinksalot
Gee,I expected Wellesley College and Yale Law School to be right up there with Hillsdale College.But I was wrong!
15 posted on 12/16/2005 9:53:08 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: SirLinksalot

It was rumored that Earlham College offered a degree in casual frisbee tossing.


16 posted on 12/16/2005 9:53:33 AM PST by relictele
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To: PalestrinaGal0317

Listed under "honorable mention."


17 posted on 12/16/2005 9:53:44 AM PST by dawn53
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To: SirLinksalot
Where's Berkley?







/sarc
18 posted on 12/16/2005 9:55:14 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: SirLinksalot

Haha, hey! How come we're not on the list? ;)

19 posted on 12/16/2005 9:55:34 AM PST by cdbull23 ("If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back." - Homer on what's good to drink.)
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To: SirLinksalot
New College of Florida in Sarasota, Fla.

Things sure have changed in 25+ years.............I had seriously considered attending there.

20 posted on 12/16/2005 9:59:06 AM PST by Gabz
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