Choosing The Right College (Thomas Sowell)

Creators Syndicate ^ | September 22, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

[bjc]

Then you are sharing my current suffering!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep

[AnAmericanMother]

Man oh man, I would be on the way to the (de)Accreditation Board, the School Board, and a lawyer in short order.

Crazy or not, you don't DO stuff like that. Or at least if you do, you should be fired, stripped of your credentials, and sued until your eyeballs rattle.

[AnAmericanMother]

But many students are going to be majoring in the sciences, engineering, etc. where the political attitudes of their professors will be largely invisible and irrelevant.

Superficially, your argument has merit. But in the real world, liberalism at science/engineering schools like Georgia Tech (for example) has proved to be a horrible problem. In fact, they were sued and entered into a consent order because their discrimination against conservative students was so blatant and so illegal.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

No argument.

[AnAmericanMother]

Was this ‘guidance’ counselor at a public or private high school?

[AnAmericanMother]

My daughter's college is considerably more expensive < whine > but has a number of the same brags --

I'm not sure of their engineering placement rate, it's not primarily an engineering school (I think they have a deal with a nearby university for some courses to get a B.S. in the various engineering disciplines) and my daughter's not in that field. But their placement rate for med and vet school is near 100 percent.

No mixed floors although some dorms are mixed. There are "substance free dorms" where the residents agree not to smoke, drink or use drugs, daughter loves living there (she's a senior) and says people really do honor it.

No graduate school, so all the courses are taught by profs -- NO TAs!!!! I understand from the academic grapevine that my alma mater which used to pride itself on no TAs, now has them all over the place and the profs just do lectures.

They are very very strict in grading - she got her very first C, in Organic Chemistry < sob! >

It's in a small town, which is awesome. Daughter says it's like Mayberry RFD - the barbershop is owned by the third generation of the same family.

[AnAmericanMother]

I meant to ask . . . if you are a Catholic, do you have to attend chapel, or will going to Mass fulfil your obligation?

[SeekAndFind]

if you are a Catholic, do you have to attend chapel

Unfortunately for the Roman Catholics, YES. But they don't dictate where you go to church on Sundays, and Grove City College has a substantial Roman Catholic student body, even though it is a Presbyterian affiliated College.

Paul Kengor (for instance ), one of the founders of the school's Vision and Values Center and a columnist with National Review, Frontpage Magazine and all that is one of their top Political Science professors. He happens to be Roman Catholic.

[SeekAndFind]

BTW, for those who listen to talk radio, Prof. Walter Williams, who regularly subs for Rush Limbaugh when he takes a break or is on vacation, used to teach at Grove City College. He later moved to George Mason University to become chairperson of their Economics Department.

[AnAmericanMother]

Interesting. My daughter's college is also a Presbyterian school (the old-line Presbys tend to be very interested in rigorous scholarship) but chapel is not required.

In fact, she'll graduate with a biology major and a minor in theology. She has had a good time arguing with the profs in her theology classes!