Why Colleges Are Becoming Anti-American

IBD ^ | August 20, 2007 | Thomas L. Kranniawitter

[Kaslin]

Kudos to Hank Brown, president of the University of Colorado, and the CU Board of Regents for doing the right thing and firing Ward Churchill.

Unfortunately, what most riled public opinion about Churchill — the patent disdain for America in his reference to 9/11 victims as "little Eichmanns" — isn't confined to one cultural studies professor with a penchant for academic fraud. Rather, his anti-American comments reflect much of the design and purpose of modern academia.

[Dudoight]

Kudos...you gotta be kidding? He wasn’t fired for his angry anti-american spewing, he was fired because of his plagiarism, lying and faulty work product.

I wish it HAD been for his venom.

[meyer]

Parents don’t have any choice in the matter. As long as college is required to get most good jobs, and going to a prestigious college is all-but-required to get the best jobs or in to law, business or medical school, parents will have to pay that tuition if they can afford it.

Until the college accrediting monopoly is busted, colleges (and the entire government education establishment) will continue to hold people over the barrel. I college degree should represent mastery of the intended subject, but today, it merely represents that the holder of the degree has endured 4+ years of socialist/liberal indoctrination with a few tidbits of useful knowledge sprinkled in for good measure.

[Tanniker Smith]

BEat me to it. That was my first reaction, too.

[Doc Savage]

I’m sorry, but did you say “Becoming???”

[SkyPilot]

Speaking of the Duke 88:

Diane M Nelson, Associated
Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology

Diane Nelson, associate professor of cultural anthropology (whatever that means)

The main reason college and university costs today are so exorbitant is because intellectual and moral lightweights like "Professor" Nelson are paid in excess of $150,000 a year (not including the costs of her benefits) to play dress up and act like a true academic scholar.

The hard earned dollars of good parents is thrown into an endless rat hole:
"Diversity" chairs, squandered salaries for endless PC garbage, money poured into homosexual and trans-gendered cesspools, and ridiculous "Studies" majors (Black Studies, Chicano Studies, 'Womayn' Studies, Queer Studies, etc).

[finnigan2]

“Duke’s alumni must be embarrassed...”

- The right decision by Duke, to salvage it’s reputation, would have been to require the 88 racist professors to issue a joint apology to the students they defamed. Any one of them who refused to sign should then have been fired.

[econjack]

If all political ideologies are equally irrational and therefore equally untrue, then why does it matter if students are exposed to one irrational prejudice or a "diversity" of prejudices?

I am a conservative university professor and have relatively few colleagues who share my views. To me, however, exposing students to diverse opinions is fine. Where I get upset is when the prof starts "selling" his position as the "only correct position to hold" rather than letting the students form their own opinions.

[kellynla]

“becoming” anti-American?

Heck, the Socialists/Communists/Leftists professors have been indoctrinating our children in universities and colleges throughout America for the past forty plus years! There’s nothing new going on, it’s just become evident to everyone who hasn’t been paying attention! And we’ve been PAYING THEIR SALARIES for selling Marx’s, Stalin’s & Lenin’s propaganda all this time!

Semper Fi,
Kelly

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke

[redpoll]

Two words: Antonio Gramsci. The grandfather of this whole mess. His words are displayed out in the open for all to see. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s just a school of thought. Check it out.

[GladesGuru]

“The propagandists posing as college professors should be working for minimum wage as day laborers. That is all they are really qualified to do.”

Sorry, I would not hire 9-% of the faculty at 98% of AMerica’s ‘institutes of higher learning’.

Jorge digs a better ditch, faster, and without any Liberal backtalk.

No businessman I know would want one of those things on his payroll. Please note that this does not apply to hard science department faculty in chemistry, engineering, etc.

[GladesGuru]

“The propagandists posing as college professors should be working for minimum wage as day laborers. That is all they are really qualified to do.”

Sorry, I would not hire 90+% of the faculty at 98% of America’s ‘institutes of higher learning’.

Jorge digs a better ditch, faster, and without any Liberal backtalk.

No businessman I know would want one of those things on his payroll. Please note that this does not apply to hard science department faculty in chemistry, engineering, etc.

[mc5cents]

Products of "Higher Education" of the 60's. So, what else is new?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Why Colleges Are Becoming Anti-American

"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - Theodore Roosevelt

Because "Them as can, does - them as can't, teaches." Neither teachers nor journalists commit themselves to "the arena." They do not allow themselves to be compared to a bottom line, and they promote themselves by criticizing and second guessing those who do. Both teachers and journalists position themselves as being "objective," and in that way superior to you and me.