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<p>African-American studies programs are intended to give students an unbiased opportunity to learn and celebrate the history and culture of blacks in America, but critics say courses too often are filled with a leftist political slant that taints the teachings.</p>

<p>The liberal tilt remains a presence in college classrooms to the distress of some students, according to a survey released yesterday by the Independent Women's Forum.</p> <p>The professors are an outspoken bunch.</p> <p>The survey found that an "overwhelming majority" of the respondents — 70 percent — said their professors expressed their political views in class.</p>

2003 Top Ten Campus Follies “Gender Blind” Dormitory and “Discriminatory” Flyer Top List Our nation’s education system continues to be weighted down with incidences of bias and political correctness. Young America’s Foundation compiled a list of the top ten most shameful campus events in America’s education system in 2003: 10. Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) administration officials censored a conservative student group’s flyer advertising a Young America’s Foundation organized lecture because the word “hate” was used on the flyer. The flyer in question featured the topic of guest speaker Dan Flynn’s speech, “Why the Left Hates America,” which is also the...

Imagine being a college student interested in arts and letters. You enroll in a literature course…and are told, over and over, that the study of literature boils down to the study of race/class/gender. To make this point, your university funds multicultural studies, post-colonialist studies and--big surprise--Marxist studies.             In short order, you discover that the study of literature has shriveled into a form of affirmative action, in which the dreary canon of “dead white males” is pushed aside to embrace “diversity”. As John Ellis notes in Literature Lost: “The intellectual catastrophe that has overtaken the humanities is not just...

The Spring 2001 semester marked the 20th anniversary of the Semester at Sea program at the University of Pittsburgh. The program has been sponsored academically by the University since 1981 and is administered by the Institute for Shipboard Education. Semester at Sea is offered as one of many study abroad opportunities made available through Pitt's University Center for International Studies. Central to the mission of the program are the University and the institute's ongoing cooperative commitment to combine academic excellence with cross-cultural experiential programming. While the first voyage in the spring of 1981 sailed with only five Pitt students, the...