Sending Your Child to College Next Year? First Open Your Eyes

By Tom Gilson Published on May 27, 2017

Thinking of sending your child to college next fall? Take note. You need to see some of what’s taken place on campus in just the past week. Most of these schools had already closed down their main class schedules for the summer.

  • The Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit against Kellogg Community College. The suit sought to halt policies that had already resulted in students being arrested for passing out copies of the Constitution on campus. One of the students was jailed.
  • A Duke University professor holding an endowed chair resigned rather than being forced to attend a weekend of “Diversity Training Phase I.” He had predicted — quite believably — it would be an “illiberal” event.
  • Cornell University continued to deny tenure to a professor because of rape charges. This went on even though a court of law had found there was no evidence for the charges, had “blasted” the school for its actions, and had ordered a review of the decision.
  • Lawrence University proved it can’t take a joke, denying recognition to a club that had screened a film, Can We Take a Joke?, on the topic of free speech in comedy.
  • Students at Davidson College “responded in anguish and outrage” after being filmed answering whether they would support the leveling of GPAs by giving the bottom 10 percent of students the GPAs held by the top 10 percent. In truth, though, they denounced the survey only after it was revealed as a project showing the wrongness of income redistribution.
  • Liberals mocked a proposed free speech center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as a “GOP safe place.” One group called it an attempt at “bullying” through “Republican propaganda.”
  • Students at DePaul University voted themselves a $2 increase in fees to fund scholarships for illegal immigrants. DePaul’s president, a Catholic priest, approved the fee hike.
  • Students and faculty at Orange Coast College “stormed the … administration building,” demanding the school “end its ‘neutrality’ … by removing the College Republicans.”
  • A professor at the University of Hawaii called on “cisgender” and “white” colleagues to resign so that “women of color and trans people” could have their jobs. “Not to alarm you, but I probably want you to quit your job, or at least take a demotion,” she wrote.
  • A college in New York was revealed as offering a course in “The Abolition of Whiteness.”

This is just one small sampling at the end of the school year. The same kind of thing goes on even more all year long, all across the country.

More and more public colleges are displaying hostility to Christian faith, morality and conservative principles. Does this mean you shouldn’t send your child to college? Not necessarily. It does mean that you shouldn’t do it with your eyes closed.

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