My university sure did, and I got a great engineering education there.
But I guess you want government monitors sitting in classes and reporting to Dept of Education what is said and taught, and then the government applying financial pressure to those who say things it considers to be "extreme?"
Having attended and graduated from two top flight universities, I've seen plenty of the bullshit that happens there and how heavily slanted to the left they are. I still don't want to see any government interference with their curriculum, the only thing worse than the descent into liberal madness happening on campuses all over the country is government interference with said craziness.
One of the classes I took in college to meet my core requirements was US Government. An assignment was to pick something and argue for it. Then argue against it (or vise versa.) I chose affirmative action. I was warned by a Polit Sci major that choosing that with Professor McStinkyButt would result in a failing grade *for the semester*.
Yeah...not OK.
Watch Bernie Sanders Speak on Morality and Justice at Liberty University
I spoke at Liberty University because I believe that it is important for those with different views in our country to engage in civil discourse – not just to shout at each other or make fun of each other.
It is very easy for those in politics to talk to those who agree with us – and I do that every day. It is harder, but not less important, to try and communicate with those who do not agree with us and see where, if possible, we can find common ground. In other words, to reach out of our zone of comfort.
The message I gave at Liberty University is that the moral choice is to fight income inequality, and that the just thing to do is to work to make our society more fair. I think it is important to share them with you here as well so that you can share with others how I approach these issues.
I think there's room for some amount of regulation...but I doubt the gov't would do it. I'd LIKE to see the rule being that you're not there to teach your political views (which PLENTY of my teachers did) or even your religious views...you're there to teach a foundation upon which people can make educated decisions for what THEIR beliefs are. To me, that means not baptizing a kid until they're 16 or older....and not being allowed to teach or force kids to think a certain way. My family is exceptionally racist and to be honest, I was as a kid too. I've tried (I think successfully) to move past that, among many things...but it would have been so much better to not have my family teach me ways of saying the "n" word without actually saying it.
Can anyone even imagine the right wing freakout if Hillary said something like "I'm going to use the federal department of education to investigate colleges for political bias"? I think the internet would run out of Hitler pictures.
Since Carson is on their political sports team I imagine there will be barely a peep.
Well shit, and ol' Ben seemed like such a nice sane guy who always told the truth and was factually correct in his statements.
The more he opens his mouth the more it proves that being highly educated in a very specialized field really doesn't mean much outside of that field.
What oversight is there now? Should public universities have reputations as bastions of liberal learning?
Just reading about the sort of issues that the Foundation for Individual Rights on Campus deals with indicates that what Carson prescribes is not a bad idea at all.
Ben Carson repeated his plan to have the federal government monitor college campuses for “extreme bias,” explaining that he would have “very strict guidelines” that would ensure that his plan wouldn’t hurt conservatives.
One of the classes I took in college to meet my core requirements was US Government. An assignment was to pick something and argue for it. Then argue against it (or vise versa.) I chose affirmative action. I was warned by a Polit Sci major that choosing that with Professor McStinkyButt would result in a failing grade *for the semester*.
Yeah...not OK.
Because a lot of so called liberals are liberals when you agree with them and authoritarian pricks if you have an opposing view by doing things like giving you a failing grade.
Bernie Sanders being able to speak at Liberty University is an example of how colleges should treat opposing ideas, not the BS we have at most so called liberal universities today.
How would that even work? People's perception of what is factual is heavily influenced by their politics. Hell, people still argue that evolution and climate science are attempts at liberal indoctrination.
Now, the conservatives are dead set against Common Core (damned government's not gonna tell us what to teach our kids!) yet are for censoring college classes, examples of which given in this thread seem to be elective classes. Oh, the ironing.
Wake me up when these excessively liberal feminism classes become required classes for graduation. Haven't seen anything like that yet.