Posted on 07/10/2007 7:33:10 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
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THE 10 MOST POLITICALLY CONSERVATIVE COLLEGES :
We also have the DIRTY DOZEN ( the most politically liberal colleges ) :
A conservative movement for America’s youth released its third annual “Top Ten Conservative College” list for students seeking an alternative to the liberal status quo.
Young America’s Foundation ranked the best colleges in the United States that allow students to explore conservative ideas through coursework in conservative thought.
The chosen top 10 colleges “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,” according to the Foundation.
The top 10 conservative colleges in alphabetical order are:
1. Christendom College in Front Royal, Va.
2. College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout; Mo.
3. Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio
4. Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.
5. Harding University in Searcy, Ark.
6. Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich.
7. Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind.
8. Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.
9. St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa.
10. Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif.
The colleges listed include traditional Catholic campuses, a robust Christian school, and an evangelical Christian university.
Young America’s Foundation insists that it is not a college rating organization. The top 10 list was produced in response to a frequently asked question of which colleges the organization recommends to those seeking conservative colleges.
Other schools the conservative organization recommends that are not liberal arts colleges include military colleges such as West Point and Annapolis.
Just prior to the release of the most conservative colleges, Young America’s Foundation listed “The Dirty Dozen” - the most bizarre, politically correct college courses in the nation, or what the Foundation called “troubling instances of leftist activism.”
Based on research on scores of courses from hundreds of the nation’s leading schools, “The Dirty Dozen” are:
1. Occidental College - The Phallus
2. University of California-Los Angeles - Queer Musicology
3. Amherst College in Massachusetts - Taking Marx Seriously: “Should Marx be given another chance?”
4. University of Pennsylvania - Adultery Novel
5. Occidental College - Blackness
6. University of Washington - Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration
7. Mount Holyoke College - Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism
8. University of Michigan - Native American Feminisms
9. Johns Hopkins University - Mail Order Brides: Understanding the Philippines in Southeast Asian Context
10. Cornell University - Cyberfeminism
11. Duke University - American Dreams/American Realities
12. Swarthmore College - Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism
Other courses that could have easily made the list (”Dishonorable Mentions”) include UC-Berkeley’s Sex Change City: Theorizing History in Genderqueer San Francisco; Cornell University’s Sex, Rugs, Salt, & Coal; Hollins University’s Drag: Theories of Transgenderism and Performance; and Hollins University’s Lesbian Pulp Fiction.
“The Dirty Dozen demonstrates that professors still have an obsession with dividing people on the basis of their skin color, sexuality, and gender,” Young America’s Foundation spokesman, Jason Mattera, said in the report.
The conservative foundation further cited recent studies that found only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment while more than half can name at least two family members of “The Simpsons.” Also, only 31 percent of college grads could read and comprehend complex books and 40 percent of college students need remedial work in math and English.
As a personal favorite... I’d add Norwich University to the list.
I am happy to see that Harding University, the college my daughter will be attending this Fall, is on the list!
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Interesting list. It’s unfortunate that students who are not looking for a conservative Protestant or Catholic education are not going to find this list too helpful. Everyone can’t go to Hillsdale U.!
The institutions will continue to grow as Christian parents grow weary of the evil taught at places like Ithaca, Berkeley, and even state universities.
My son is applying to Hillsdale for next year. We visited this spring and he was very impressed. He went to classes for a day and got to meet a lot of professors and students.
Located on the slopes of Fiji Hill in Los Angeles, Occidental College once championed the liberal arts, but started to change after a liberal became its president in 1966. By 1970, the History of Civilization, a mandatory course for all freshmen, was abolished, to be replaced by a range of electives which included a class on "Fidel Castro's Revolutionary Socialism." Later, the large crucifix that was attached to othe college chapel was removed, so that non-Christians wouldn't be offended. One can only wonder how the Presbyterians who founded the school in 1887 would have felt.
My oldest son attends the University of Notre Dame, and I find the quality of the courses offered there in keeping with those offered by the Top Ten colleges. I *love* the place, and can recommend it to anyone. Anyone who can get in, that is - they got almost 14000 applications for this year’s Freshman class. :)
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I honestly didn’t think much of Liberty University when I moved to Lynchburg in the mid-90s. But, I’ve come around. The numerous LU grads I’ve met and worked with are great people and well-prepared for the real world. The school has does a lot for the community too. I’m considering sending my kids to their high school (Liberty Christian Academy) when they are old enough. LCA grads get free tuition at LIberty University. Not a bad deal.
There is no way that Columbia does not make the dirty dozen.
I have heard great things about Hillsdale!
Anyone hear much about Creighton University in Omaha or Drake in Des Moines, Iowa ??
Daughter has visited both and likes them, but now-a-days, it's so hard to really tell from a brief visit and we do not know any recent grads.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated ---- gathering as much info as we can.
She is also looking at Hillsdale....
My son spent a day and a half at Hillsdale and loved the place. He stayed with a student in their dorm, ate the food, and attended 5 classes, history, poly sci, law, etc. The campus is charming, the facilities up to date, the professors very approachable, and the atmosphere was very positive. He will be applying this fall and we will see what happens. 25% of incoming freshmen have an ACT of 30 or above. They accept no federal money, but their endowment of 250 plus million allows them to be competitive in offering financial aid. We will see what happens, but I would love my son to attend there. I saw a recent quote from a sudent which really struck me. They said that “most kids comes to Hillsdale as Republicans and leave as conservatives”. Those are the things I like to hear about the school.
I started Distance Learning (online) with Liberty University this past January. I can’t tell you how wonderful it has been.
My last experience was at a local community college where I listened to one professor tell the class that people only become Republicans because they are racist (I dropped that class right away).
At Liberty, not only do I not have to hide my conservatism, I can actually write about those values and still get an “A”!
But the greatest thing by far that Liberty has helped me with is my relationship with the Lord. I am so thankful for that.
marinamuffy
I also like the fact that they told the feds to stick it and so they run things they way they want to --- no interference. A bigger plus is that there are no Gender or Women's Studies majors !!!
Thanks...
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