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| Subject: Conservative suppression on campus turns parents away from colleges Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:14 am | |
| An admissions letter from Harvard University was once considered cause for celebration, but in conservative households, that may be changing.
David M. Whalen, provost of Hillsdale College, a school with a conservative reputation, said he has noticed an uptick in the number of parents who send their children to Hillsdale to avoid colleges where conservative thought is met with ridicule, suppression and violence. “The educational environment has become so distempered that, in many cases, parents are now looking elsewhere,” Mr. Whalen said. “In fact, more and more parents tell us at Hillsdale that they had assumed their children would go to this or that institution, but they are deeply grateful to find Hillsdale instead.” A survey released this week by the Washington-based Pew Research Center shows Republicans have never been more down on higher education. Just 36 percent say the institution has a positive effect on the nation, compared with 58 percent who say it has a negative effect. Those numbers were almost reversed two years ago, when 54 percent of Republicans said higher education had a beneficial effect on the nation, compared with 37 percent who said it had a harmful effect.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/12/conservative-suppression-on-campus-turns-parents-a/
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