During the December congressional investigation of the House Committee on Education & the Workforce, the sharp line of questioning by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik exposed the evil and moral rot on the campuses of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT as their presidents were held accountable.
And for the recovery of America, this sharp line of questioning must be seen as a mere beginning for nearly every college and university in America must become reinvigorated and held to higher standards.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The pathetic answers on whether calling for “genocide of Jews” constituted bullying and harassment in their campus codes of conduct exposed the above-mentioned universities’ utter lack of concern and arrogance. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The intellectual and moral rot on our college campuses is much more deep-seated than their college presidents or boards of directors. The faculty are the real villains—“the professors have destroyed higher education in America by turning places of free thought into centers of indoctrination.”
They are the ones who must be held accountable for suppressing free speech and diversity of opinion in the pursuit of social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Twenty years ago, academic freedom was essentially sacrosanct—off limits, too important to be touched. But not today. There’s no more respect for academic freedom. “Today professors, mainly in Humanities and Social Sciences, have become radicalized and practice indoctrination in the classroom for political and social change.” Rather than teaching to think, their mission has become to produce social justice warriors.
Professors used to safeguard—even encourage—diversity of viewpoint, however, today if you disagree with an instructor’s agenda, you are ostracized, not only by the instructor, but by the other students as well—further, the instructor permits public humiliation. This is not teaching, this is indoctrination. Worse yet, “over the last 20 years, this radicalization of the classroom has spread to public high schools and lower grades.” And much like an unchecked cancer, this moral decline has spread and “killed off healthy diversity of thought in the classroom.”
Not all is lost, however. There has been on the scene for quite some time a remedy to the educational ills of America. Twenty years ago academic freedom was alive and well, and there was a true academic freedom movement spreading throughout America to restore intellectual diversity and combat indoctrination in the classroom. It was called the Academic Bill of Rights and it was championed by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. It was a bill of rights for legislative action to protect the fundamental freedoms of students and faculty as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution from being infringed on college campuses.
The bill was introduced as legislation in some two dozen state legislatures, including New York State—and a few states adopted a form of the Academic Bill of Rights. In one notable example, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, in 2005 passed a resolution based on the principles of the Academic Bill of Rights. The resolution created a Committee on Academic Freedom which held hearings at state universities and to investigate violations of academic freedom.
Contrary to all positive thought, all hopes for meaningful productive advancement, however, something terrible took place in America. Remember that ominous, foreboding promise to fundamentally transform America? Yes, exactly. That loss of direction, that time period when something terrible seemed to take place, I believe occurred between 2009 and 2017. And if I may be so bold, I will choose to say that terrible period of time when the moral decay of America accelerated and when our nation seemed to lose its direction on every cultural measuring stick imaginable the two presidential terms of Barack Hussein Obama befell our beloved country.
America’s colleges and universities were once great bastions of higher learning. According to a Carnegie Corporation statement:
For most of the 20th century, the U.S. had
the best higher education system in the world.
People came from all over the world to pursue their studies here, and America’s colleges and universities produced outstanding graduates and future leaders. But the present condition of America’s schools is sad at best and disgusting to imagine the amoral leadership of one Shiite Candidate with a dream and a mission to bring America to its knees has been able to fundamentally transform our beloved country into a place We the People no longer recognize.
Moving forward with great hope, however, the return of President Trump will be a time of rebirth for America. Among hundreds of other corrections, all city councils and state legislatures will be encouraged to enact the Academic Bill of Rights to protect the fundamental rights of students and faculty. College presidents who do not quickly change the deep-rooted radical communist orthodoxy on campuses today will be strongly encouraged to move along.
As will be stated in their revised mission statements, every institution of higher learning must assume a duty to promote intellectual diversity and critical thinking on campus. There will be affirmations by all institutions of higher learning that the ideas of all students and faculty members will be treated with respect, and fairly represented on campus in the pursuit of truth. Classrooms will cease to be soapboxes for professors to promote their own points of view. And every elected official and candidate for local or state office must sponsor the Academic Bill of Rights in their city councils and state legislatures.
God speed to Conservatism and to the Take Back of our Constitutional Republic.
