<p>Perhaps the NAS should start a conservative arts college to compete in the market place of colleges instead of worrying about what one particular small liberal arts college does.</p>
<p>I think “draconian anti-hazing” rules are a real problem for a liberal arts college. NOT!</p>
<p>But wait! My college buddy Bill Bennett, he of the virtues and the $30 million in gambling debts, writes, the college “effectively promotes sexual promiscuity,”</p>
<p>So which is it - draconian anti-hazing rules or effectively promotes sexual promiscuity? How can someone who can’t haze freely and can’t engage in sexual promiscuity be said to be engaged in free thought?</p>
<p>many colleges lack any substantial number of professors with conservative views (by conservative, in this sense I mean things like small federal government).</p>
<p>It’s pretty obvious… what percentage of higher education donations went to Obama vs. Romney in the last election? If all you have to do on the exam is spit back what was in the book, you are fine. But what if the exam requires analysis and/or problem solving in a real world or hypothetical situation? Do you feel safe writing what you truly feel? Or do you have to write what you think the professor would argue?</p>
<p>This is a big problem with colleges. It contributes to rising costs as “liberal” views take hold on the management and the bureaucracy grows tremendously, tuition skyrockets way faster than inflation to fund more administrators making 6 figures that no one knows what they do. Surely everyone doesn’t need a Vice Assistant Dean of Landscaping… ok, so that might be a slight exaggeration, but this stuff is out of control.</p>
<p>When is the last time you saw tuition go down?</p>
<p>I’m always amazed by the idea that sustainability runs counter to conservative ideas. Counter to current Republicanism, maybe, but not conservatism. Taking the long view and allocating resources with careful thought is inherently conservative whether we’re talking about money or any other commodity.</p>
<p>I noticed the same thing years ago. I never got why self-described “conservatives” often seemed to be anything but conservative in some of their personal habits, such as wasteful energy and other consumption (don’t they realize that wasting energy is wasting money?).</p>
<p>There are some conservative values that may be worthwhile personal goals to many people, but are inappropriate for governments to try to regulate strictly (promotion of such government regulation also goes against the general goal of smaller government).</p>
<p>Fiscal/economic conservatives are probably not that hard to find in economics and business departments.</p>
<p>However, social conservatives may be harder to find in general at universities, if their automatic disapproval of certain subjects makes them unwilling to research and teach about things like the economics of prostitution, sexual behavior of gay men, etc… The denial of things like evolution or even the possibility of climate change also alienates scientists from some types of conservatives. Universities, by bringing together students and faculty from a state, large region, nation, or world, may also have more diversity than social conservatives in less diverse places may be comfortable with.</p>
<p>“There are some conservative values that may be worthwhile personal goals to many people, but are inappropriate for governments to try to regulate strictly”</p>
<p>That’s fair enough, but punishing Bowdoin, a private institution, for voluntarily pursuing sustainability goals doesn’t have any connection to avoiding government regulation. It’s just…I don’t even know how to characterize it. You leave those lights on, Bowdoin, or no more checks from me! What sort of value is that?</p>
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<p>I also want to know, when did politically correct become a dirty word?
To me it means " welcoming to those with differences", whether that be regarding their physical or mental abilities or to how they see themselves in the world.
How is loving your neighbor a bad thing?</p>
<p>“This is a big problem with colleges. It contributes to rising costs as “liberal” views take hold on the management and the bureaucracy grows tremendously, tuition skyrockets way faster than inflation…”</p>
<p>Assets of the top 3-5% of the population, the prime market for elite colleges, have risen well faster than the increases in tuition over the past 30 years, and for this market, the cost of private, elite educations, relative to assets, are at their lowest point in three decades. More than that, the cost of providing these educations, according to the institutions, well outstrips what is paid in tuition. Klingenstein’s alma mater provides a $35,000 a year “scholarship” to every millionaire and billionaire’s son or daughter who attends. Every dollar I give to my alma mater subsidizes some multi-millionaire like Klingenstein - isn’t that enough?</p>
<p>The result is that these institutions are far, far too conservative for my liking. My views are virtually unrepresented on most private, elite college campuses (except by a small number of students.) I’d begin by making the cost of attendance the cost of providing the education for those who can afford it. (And many, many can.)</p>
<p>But what they are really upset about are those 'draconian anti-hazing rules". Unregulated hazing is as American as apple pie, and to regulate it is the work of the Taliban. How can a $300,000 report that attacks a liberal arts college for its ‘draconian anti-hazing rules’ be considered intellectually respectable?</p>
<p>I thought we were talking about “too few conservative faculty members.” I share conservatives’ pain that liberal colleges are willing to compromise their high academic standards in order to hire URM faculty members, but are not willing to dip down just as far to get conservatives. Where’s the justice?</p>