Conservative professor admits teaching should be ideological.

Liberal professors have the power to help solve this problem. They can show their conservative students how to become thoughtful and knowledgeable partisans — by exposing them to a rich conservative intellectual tradition that stretches back to Enlightenment thinkers like Edmund Burke, David Hume and Adam Smith. They could mentor their conservative students, set up reading groups, help vet speakers and create courses on the conservative intellectual tradition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/opinion/conservative-college-students.html
 
The moron who wrote this doesn't understand that ~80 percent of students are getting degrees in STEM, business, healthcare.

And even in the humanities and social sciences you can't make art history, English literature, psychology, music, and performing arts political. Anymore than you can make chemistry, physics, calculus, accounting, or fluid dynamics ideological.
 
Cypress said:
The moron who wrote this doesn't understand that ~80 percent of students are getting degrees in STEM, business, healthcare.

And even in the humanities and social sciences you can't make art history, English literature, psychology, music, and performing arts political. Anymore than you can make chemistry, physics, calculus, accounting, or fluid dynamics ideological.
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"By Jon A. Shields

Mr. Shields is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. He has written widely on the American right and the politics of higher education."
 
BidenPresident said:
"By Jon A. Shields

Mr. Shields is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. He has written widely on the American right and the politics of higher education."
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You could fit all the 'government' majors at my college into a phone booth.

Professor Shields obviously exists in an Ivory tower and either doesn't understand the student body at universities more broadly, or he is auditioning for a guest spot on the Tucker Carlson show.
 
Cypress said:
You could fit all the 'government' majors at my college into a phone booth.

Professor Shields obviously exists in an Ivory tower and either doesn't understand the student body at universities more broadly, or he is auditioning for a guest spot on the Tucker Carlson show.
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"A national campaign could do more than just improve the next generation of Republican leaders. It might also restore some semblance of lost faith in higher education as a whole. A substantial majority of Republicans now believe that universities have a negative influence on the country. That distrust will only encourage more DeSantis-style attacks on these institutions, especially the public ones. If professors want to defend the legitimacy of universities against the charge that they are simply leftist indoctrination centers, they should relentlessly broadcast the new efforts they’re making to mentor their conservative students."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/opinion/conservative-college-students.html

A veiled threat. Force professors to mentor conservatives or we will unleash Trump fascists on you.
 
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