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."
There's a place called Magdalen College that's also pretty conservative; they advertize in National Review.
Ahhh... I want to go back! I'll have to ask my sister to bring me some pastys!!
Of course the shooting range is indoors in the UP. It's a frozen land.
Ha! Hillsdale College. Wasn't the President of that school caught up in some sort of sordid sex scandal just a few years back? Yikes!
I think this link has turned into a link of our GREAT memories of the UP. I would love to meet all of you. I will be traveling through the UP this summer(I go through about once every couple of years). If any of you still live up there send me a private reply. I would like to meet you and buy you an adult beverage at the Library, or any other place of your choice in the UP. I usually spend most of my time in Marquette, but I also know people in Escanaba. Let me know.
Interesting that three of the most conservative (two top ten and one honorable mention) are located in the "Cradle of Civilization" near SW PA.
Nor my alma mater: Inclined Plane College.
We just called it Screw U.
Evergreen was my first thought too. Yikes!
While I have sympathy, professors don't brainwash any minds except extremely weak minds. Your sister/brother are the ones who failed here.
Went to both a liberal & a relatively conservative college (it was actually about as liberal as the 1990s Democratic party, which is uber-conservative in academia)... it was a lot easier to be a conservative in the former than the latter, because the professors & students were such parodies of themselves.
Yup. Magdalene and Thomas More are very small, but they're very close to us, so I'm thinking of them for my daughters. Plus, they're both relatively inexpensive. $15k/year for tuition and room and board.
You'll be pleased that your namesake is on this list.
It's a grand old name.
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