Conservative Colleges

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It is ironic that most of your sentences are basically identical to those you are criticizing.

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Anonymous wrote:where do politically conservative leaning DMV kids apply to college?

Small red state colleges would be my guess. I actually don’t know any politically conservative kids!

You may want to step out of your bubble at some point.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:Google the schools that invited trump to speak at. Good indication.

Is this what passes for a sentence among your crowd?

NP here. Unclench, Granny.

At a minimum, you should have an education in basic rules of written English regardless of the political climate at your chosen college.

NP here. Stop. Seriously. No one wants the grammar police.

DP. No one is interested in the political put-downs, either. Seriously.

How is the first comment a putdown? trump is conservative and still head of the Conservatives/Republicans. If you want to find a conservative college, look for one that invited him to speak.

Simple common sense.

It is a discussion about higher education so at least write a decent sentence. Not great, not amazing...just one that would at least pass muster in college.

And how is trump a conservative? He is an opportunist. He was a democrat for a decade and he also is trying to stage a coup. At least choose a real conservative speaker for this exercise.

This is hilarious. Your writing is terrible. Not amazing, not decent, just terrible. At least write a sentence that would pass muster at my high school.

DP. You mean like this one? "Google the schools that invited trump to speak at."

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Anonymous wrote:The heading on this might be a bit misleading — there are colleges that are “conservative” (e.g., Liberty) and then there are colleges that aren’t “conservative” per se but are more more tolerant of a diversity of views. Unfortuntely,it’s a pretty short list.

The University of Chicago
The rest are mostly in the South — e.g., SMU, many Southern flagships

I also heard that Uchicago is more tolerant than other top universities but not sure what that is based on

They emphasize respect for the free speech and teach their students to not reflexively scream "harm!" if they hear a viewpoint they might disagree with. The administration appears to have some spine, compared to many other schools.

https://freeexpression.uchicago.edu/

In 2014, President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Eric Isaacs appointed a committee of University faculty to articulate “the University’s overarching commitment to free, robust, and uninhibited debate.” The resulting “Chicago Principles” have since been adopted by universities and colleges across the country.

https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/documents/reports/FOECommitteeReport.pdf

In a word, the University’s fundamental commitment is to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed. It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the University as an institution, to make those judgments for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose. Indeed, fostering the ability of members of the University community to engage in such debate and deliberation in an effective and responsible manner is an essential part of the University’s educational mission.

As a corollary to the University’s commitment to protect and promote free expression, members of the University community must also act in conformity with the principle of free expression. Although members of the University community are free to criticize and contest the views expressed on campus, and to criticize and contest speakers who are invited to express their views on campus, they may not obstruct or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views they reject or even loathe. To this end, the University has a solemn responsibility not only to promote a lively and fearless freedom of debate and deliberation, but also to protect that freedom when others attempt to restrict it.

As Robert M. Hutchins observed, without a vibrant commitment to free and open inquiry, a university ceases to be a university. The University of Chicago’s long-standing commitment to this principle lies at the very core of our University’s greatness. That is our inheritance, and it is our promise to the future.

DP. I love this. Good for them.

The list of schools that have adopted some version of the “Chicago Statement” is not a bad place to start. I just did a quick review, but it seems to be a good list of colleges that haven’t gone around the bend.

https://www.thefire.org/chicago-statement-university-and-faculty-body-support/

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Radford U

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Westmont in Santa Barbara

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Anonymous wrote:Washington and Lee
University of Richmond
Liberty University
Auburn
Wake Forest
Elon

Are you serious? I thought Elon was full of liberal NJ,
NY, MD kids!

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Anonymous wrote:where do politically conservative leaning DMV kids apply to college?

Small red state colleges would be my guess. I actually don’t know any politically conservative kids!

You may want to step out of your bubble at some point.
DP

DP here. I’m a high school history teacher and do not know any conservative high school kids either.

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Anonymous wrote:where do politically conservative leaning DMV kids apply to college?

Small red state colleges would be my guess. I actually don’t know any politically conservative kids!

You may want to step out of your bubble at some point.
DP

DP here. I’m a high school history teacher and do not know any conservative high school kids either.

Maybe because they are afraid you will judge. My conservative (not Trumper) DD went to UVA and majored in Politics, Philosophy and the Law. She’s now reading History at Oxford for a DPhil

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Anonymous wrote:Wheaton in Illinois

I went there and 20 years later from what I can tell my classmates are pretty evenlly distributed politically liberal/moderate/conservative or even up to 50% liberal. My own friend group (now as 40+ year olds) is super liberal.
Wheaton sends a ton of students on to get PhDs (it's always ranked very high on this among American colleges) and I don't think you can spend that many years in academia without at least trending moderate.
The college itself has remained apolitical in recent times, even with the heavy politicalization of the christian church in America (to the right).

My conservative friends (I have many connections from childhood) all send their kids to Liberty or Grove City. Wheaton is viewed as way too liberal by many of them.

Yes. Grad of another Christian college here.
Some go to Christian college for theology classes or Christian community, but not necessarily for conservative views. There's also a Christian left (most of my friends) at many Christian colleges. Far right are the likes of Liberty, ORU, Bob Jones -- very different from the likes of Wheaton, Messiah, Eastern etc. Still a politically conservative outlook would find some company on these campuses.

I would advise whatever school has great programs. Schools need a variety of student perspectives!

FWIW, my kid of faith (though not poliitically conservative) is looking primarily at Wheaton, Ivies, and NE LACs.

I would say at least half of the conservative kids I know attend Liberty - even if they graduated from public school. My impression is it's generous with aid.

Yes - my conservative friends of faith also send their kids to Pensacola, a number of Bible colleges (Lancaster, Moody, etc), Thomas Aquinas

My Christian moderate friends are also at Wheaton, Messiah, Eastern Mennonite, Baylor

Other schools I've heard they are fond of (but I don't know well enough): Calvin College, Hope College, Dallas, Cedarville,

Conservative schools without a religious affiliation: Utah State, Clemson, any of the military colleges, Pepperdine, SMU, Washington and Jefferon, Washington and Lee, North Georgia, Univ of South Carolina

A lot of conservatives I know attend state schools and regional publics in their Red states: places like Florida Atlantic, Univ of Missouri, Univ of Montana

Liberty is cheap. Sticker price is around $30K and that's before any aid or scholarships. It's scooped up almost all of the children of christian conservatives, even those who 10 years ago would not have considered it.

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You get what you pay for. A degree from Liberty is worth a lot less in the job market than ANY state flagship and most secondary state schools like UNC-Ashevlle or JMU.

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Anonymous wrote:where do politically conservative leaning DMV kids apply to college?

Depends. Do you mean "Burke conservative" or "Trump conservative"?

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Anonymous wrote:Patrick Henry

Hahaha. Only for complete crackpots.

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Hampden-Sydney if they're male

Bridgewater College

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Anonymous wrote:Wash & lee
BC
Notre Dame
Wake
Davidson
UVA
UNC

Nope.

These colleges talk liberal to get by but basically conservative. Look at the professions grads choose.