[Gaffer]

I’ve been connected with academia for several decades now.

One thing that I’ve always thought about is the idealized learning experience in higher education being one of openness, tolerance of viewpoints, and scholarly endeavors - or should be.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Higher education, especially in the liberal arts, and even a lot of the disciplines supposedly advanced by big liberal Ivy League schools is infested with close minded liberalism that practices ideological tyranny as if they invented it.

There is no dissent tolerated, and the viewpoints are stepping stones to rabid totalitarianism, the kind of which has created genocide on a massive scale in the past.

[scooby321]

I Think Chic-Fil sponsors their football Conference.

[scottjewell]

Well stated. Yep, has been my experience of academia as well.

[A Strict Constructionist]

“especially in the liberal arts, and even a lot of the disciplines supposedly advanced by big liberal Ivy League schools is infested with close minded liberalism that practices ideological tyranny as if they invented it.”

Now with the education bubble and severe budget problems, except for administrators, it is time to cut programs. This should start with any programs named Studies and end with journalism in the initial phase. After these cuts I would start with any that begin with basket and are part of athletic programs until we are back to a real education.