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Cypress said:
I get the distinct impression that most rightwingers who sob about colleges being "liberal indoctrination centers", have never actually set foot in a college class themselves. And they are therefore mindlessly parroting with their betters in the rightwing media order them to think.

I personally spent close to a decade in college classrooms, and 97 percent of that time was devoted to talking about science, statistics, mathematics...even the history classes I took did not seem even remotely Kenyan-Transgendered-Muslim-Marxist to me.

I literally cannot recall a single time I felt that professors were encouraging me to commiserate with Vladimir Lenin, feel comradeship with Mao, or offer allegiance to Fidel Castro.
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So how many women's and gender study courses did you take?
 
domer76 said:
You nailed it.
The closest thing to political "indoctrination" I recall was when I took a Russian Literature course as an elective. The professor hated the Soviets and wasn't shy about it. He was Latvian.
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My chemistry professor, OTOH, was a home-schooling conservative fundie Xtian mom who often talked about Jesus and Sunday school and Bible passages and such like things in class. I was sometimes tempted to ask her if she believed the young earth rot often espoused by fundie Xtians. But didn't want to set her off. lol
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
My chemistry professor, OTOH, was a home-schooling conservative fundie Xtian mom who often talked about Jesus and Sunday school and Bible passages and such like things in class. I was sometimes tempted to ask her if she believed the young earth rot often espoused by fundie Xtians. But didn't want to set her off. lol
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Holy smoke, I am forever boggled that young earth creationists actually get science degrees from accredited universities.

Based on my limited experience, I was surprised how many conservative history professors there were...though to their credit, they did generally did not use class time to pontificate.

I had some professors who I knew were really against the first Iraq War in 1990, but in class they kept their opinions to themselves.

From my experience, the "political indoctrination" of college is totally hyped by the rightwing, and is not something I experienced.

I actually heard more political indoctrination as an employee in the corporate world....where my liberal views were generally not held in high esteem!
 
Mott the Hoople said:
The Ohio State University System has about 125,000 students. It's rated as a top 100 University internationally.

Lancaster is a good school Tom. It's what we would call in the US a Public Ivy School.
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University of the Year 2018
Lancaster University has been named University of the Year by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018.

It has also taken the top spot for Best Campus University and Best University in the North West.

Alastair McCall, editor of The Sunday Times Good University Guide, said: “In the 19 years of our University of the Year awards, there has rarely been a more clear-cut winner.”

Lancaster has been the top university in the northwest of England for over a decade and this year rose three places to finish sixth place in the national league table, securing it a top 10 finish for the second consecutive year and its highest ever ranking.

Its sixth-place ranking in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018, as well as the winning of the coveted University of the Year award, cements its place as an elite UK university.

Commenting on the decision to make Lancaster The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year and Campus University of the Year, Alastair McCall, editor of The Sunday Times Good University Guide, said: "Rising to its highest ever ranking in our league table this year, Lancaster is at the top of its game. It knows the university it wants to be and as a result makes a distinctive offer to students.

"The modern interpretation of a collegiate structure, coupled with flexible degree programmes and academics committed to teaching as well as research has been recognised in consistently good outcomes in the annual National Student Survey. Students love Lancaster.

"Dynamic course content and structure, plus the opportunities many students get to work abroad, is reflected in outstanding graduate prospects once they leave. In the 19 years of our University of the Year awards, there has rarely been a more clear-cut winner."
 
TOP said:
No, sorry. You're wrong again...not that there is anything wrong with a Junior College though, is there?
And your "degree"?
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I have degrees in advanced astrophysics, forensic Economics Ethno Biological Warfare and Peptide Mono Nucleic Pathogenesis.
 
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Cypress said:
Holy smoke, I am forever boggled that young earth creationists actually get science degrees from accredited universities.
Based on my limited experience, I was surprised how many conservative history professors there were...though to their credit, they did generally did not use class time to pontificate.
I had some professors who I knew were really against the first Iraq War in 1990, but in class they kept their opinions to themselves.
From my experience, the "political indoctrination" of college is totally hyped by the rightwing, and is not something I experienced.
I actually heard more political indoctrination as an employee in the corporate world....where my liberal views were generally not held in high esteem!
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Well, I don't know if she was a young earther or not -- I'm not sure how you could have a masters in chemistry and still believe that the Earth is 6K yrs. old. lol

Certainly at my current university, in the coursework that I'm doing (Native American Studies), we are top-heavy on the tree-hugger, social justice side of the spectrum -- and that is fine with me. While all of my professors have either masters or doctorates and are of course extremely professional in the classroom, there is an undercurrent at times of great sorrow and anger at the loss of their ancestral language, culture, spirituality, and way of life following colonization... the language in particular because it informs everything else. I do not think there are enough years left to me to become as fluent as an elder first speaker, but it's my goal to at least be able to converse. I plan to work as a volunteer with the school age indigenous kids and help them restore pride in their wonderful heritage, beginning with their beautiful and expressive language. Substance abuse and alcoholism are huge problems on the rez; it could be that my health care education can also help with that.

Yeah, I'm a liberal, can you tell?
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Well, I don't know if she was a young earther or not -- I'm not sure how you could have a masters in chemistry and still believe that the Earth is 6K yrs. old. lol

Certainly at my current university, in the coursework that I'm doing (Native American Studies), we are top-heavy on the tree-hugger, social justice side of the spectrum -- and that is fine with me. While all of my professors have either masters or doctorates and are of course extremely professional in the classroom, there is an undercurrent at times of great sorrow and anger at the loss of their ancestral language, culture, spirituality, and way of life following colonization... the language in particular because it informs everything else. I do not think there are enough years left to me to become as fluent as an elder first speaker, but it's my goal to at least be able to converse. I plan to work as a volunteer with the school age indigenous kids and help them restore pride in their wonderful heritage, beginning with their beautiful and expressive language. Substance abuse and alcoholism are huge problems on the rez; it could be that my health care education can also help with that.

Yeah, I'm a liberal, can you tell?
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That is super groovy.

But the rightwing claim is that "universities" are political indoctrination machines.

Not that "native American" or "women's studies" departments are- - departments which at the scale of a university, are actually tiny and relatively insignificant in the overall academic bureaucracy.

Bottom line: the reich wing needs to get their story straight!

I also think the preservation of language, culture, and tradition is not necessarily a left-wing or rightwing thing. I certainly have met many people from eastern European - immigrants and natives - keenly interested in maintaining orthodoxy and Slavic cultural tradition, traditional social norms, and tradioonal religious practices.

For any Trumpanzee to imply that native americans are some sort of Marxist-Socialists for wanting basically the same thing seems way off the mark to me!
 
Cypress said:
But the rightwing claim is that "universities" are political indoctrination machines.
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I have to sort of agree with that. Most people who attend a large university are going to be exposed to a very diverse culture of fellow human beings.... various races, nationalities, ESL-speakers, wealthy/poor/middle class, genders and sexual orientations, etc. That alone will tend -- in four years of exposure -- to broaden the minds of most young people. It's no wonder that many conservatives are antagonistic against our universities... just like fundie Xtians who home-school don't want their kids exposed to "other ideas."
 
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