When considering a $60K price tag, the last thing I’m thinking about is protecting my kid from politics I don’t like. If the school has rigorous academics, opportunities to indulge his/her curiosity and prepare for the real world, I don’t care about the political environment on campus. On the list of priorities/factors swinging my decision, it’s at the bottom, right next to cafeteria food or good water polo team.
If there is in fact a demand for college rankings according to political bias, it will be quite entertaining to see how the anti-PC crowd will be courted by like-minded campuses in their marketing collateral. Will the brochure say, “PC Goons need not apply” or “Diversity Czars are for wusses not strong students like you” or “Wear Whatever You Want for Halloween” or “Words don’t hurt people, Shrieking does.” How about “No offense, but our buildings are named after people we admire, not people you admire.”