"Campuses now major front in culture war" [View All]

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The press release bemoans the "overload" of Democratic faculty members......


(AgapePress) - For decades, network television, public schools, and abortion clinics were some of the main fronts in the nation's culture wars. Now, however, college and university campuses are becoming a major battleground, as Christian and conservative students are fighting what they call an entrenched and ferocious liberal and humanistic monopoly that tries to silence all dissent.

USA Today highlighted a recent study by researcher Daniel Klein of Santa Clara University in California. He found that, nationwide, Democrats outnumber Republicans 7-1 among university faculty members in the social science and humanities departments. In departments like anthropology, the disparity grew to 30-1. Do such overloaded faculties make any difference in the classroom? In an attempt to document what students thought, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) commissioned a survey which questioned students on 50 top U.S. college and university campuses.

According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the ACTA report found that 49 percent of all students said their professors use classroom time to advance their personal political views and "frequently comment on politics in class even though it has nothing to do with the course."
Even worse, said the WSJ article, 29 percent of students responding in the ACTA survey said they felt they had to agree with the professor's political or social views "in order to get a good grade." Anne Neal, ACTA president, told WSJ: "If these were reports of sexual harassment in the classroom, they would get people's attention."

Conservatives are fighting back.........

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