The battle for new college

Dude, make up your mind.

First it was colleges have always been liberal (or at least treated as liberal) and have not gotten more liberal because they've always been liberal.

Now it's Republicans used to own college grads, they don't anymore, so Republicans failed when they controlled education, now liberals control education. So I guess you can say, "colleges became more liberal?"

 

For the most part, humanity didn't advance over hundreds or thousands of years. Christianity was a big set back for advancement too, and they certainly crapped on things from the past, anything written by those heathen Greeks and Romans.

 

I used the term "radical" not liberal, you need to make up your mind. "Radicalism" and liberal dont mean the same thing, and they are quite oppositional in many cases.

 

Yes they did, it was just slow until it wasn't anymore thanks to good old job specialization, capitalism, and innovation.

 

I'm not familiar with their rhetoric on this issue, but they 100% view it that way. In their mind they are disaffected minorities on campus, they want their affirmative action in the name of diversity and equality.

 

Yes, and capitalism has also been more successful at annihilating traditional ideas than any leftist program ever devised

 

Students enforce civil rights legislation through lawsuits. The interpretation of the rules are broadened to the point that they are interpreted to value "equity," not really "equality." Universities try and get ahead of the curve because they don't want to bite the hands that feed them (government in terms of money, funding, grants, and students in terms of enrollment, tuition, and donations). Over time, each subsequent administration becomes more favorable towards these things to the point of outright advocacy in its favor to the point where almost all major universities in America are run by incredibly liberal people. Those liberal administrations create or grow equity-based offices, courses of study, and research initiatives run by like-minded people. Eventually, we come to where we are now where liberal policy and equity-based values are so tethered to academia, any opposition to these sorts of things are characterized by our so-called "elites" as "ignorant" and "anti-academic."

 

Not just in Florida. Faculty is "left of center" if they hold intellectually defensible opinions. These people don't understand how misguided their conception of objective truth is

 

We just don't want an almost culturally-mandated step in the development of a young man or woman to be indoctrination institutions.

Now, I don't think we should treat colleges that way as a culture, but the the college market is so oversaturated, employers are requiring college degrees for jobs that by no means require college degrees, many of which would offer a superior outcome substituting 4-year apprenticeships for college degrees. But hey, I don't call the shots.

 

Its pretty crazy since most of the high profile lawsuits are geared toward elite universities, and usually involve admissions. Bakke goes back to what, 1978? That was the first blow to affirmative action and there have been any number since since quotas were called unconstitutional, and its basically going to be eliminated entirely pretty soon. Its like totally ignoring the history and success of the conservative legal movement since the 70s lol.

 

lol no.

Business is conservative relative to liberal arts. They're certainly not communists over there, but that's not exactly saying much.

That would be like saying Hillary is conservative because she believes in capitalism with an anchor.

I would say med school and vet school is apolitical without considering the current interpretation of Title IX and DEI initiatives. Here's the thing, we have to consider those things. Ask any of these institutions and they'll all tell you they're a huge deal.

 

A huge part of political battles is winning over the unopinionated, making them feel good about themselves, and convincing them that the other side is uneducated, ignorant, and hates you.

Democrats are masterful at selling that message to young people.