Which schools are conservative now?

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Anonymous wrote:Define conservative. By definition, education learning new things, new approaches, meeting new people and ideas tends to be a liberal tenet.

One would think so. Unfortunately the progressive left has forgotten this. Statistics show they are the most intolerant, and now Democrats are more likely to refuse to date or be friends with conservatives and boasts of cutting off family and old friends over views is much more common on the left than the right. So I'd be careful in making these kinds of assumptions. Any pragmatic person who's been through the elite Ivory tower knows they are the most ideologically rigid and unforgiving of any higher education institutions.

I don't know what OP is looking for, but it she or he is looking for the old fashioned concept of liberal, aka a genuine tolerance of diversity of viewpoints, best places are probably the big state universities and southern schools. Faculty will be D voters but students are all across the spectrum with minimal pressure to hide their views.

I would guess this is women unwilling to date men who think they are second class citizens/shouldn't have bodily autonomy. I don't find that surprising at all, tolerating a view point doesn't require you to date them.

+1000

This was true for me and my peers in the 1990s and 2000s. And I expect it will remain the same for DD and her peers in the decade or two two come.

Dating has always been a self-sorting process. The only “new” part of this is the big jump in the number of very conservative young men without a similar shift from young women.

The result is that conservative men are facing a smaller dating pool. The same is true for liberal women, by the way. There’s a major population mismatch going on right now, but recent research shows that young women are more focused on first establishing a career than getting married and having kids. So there’s less disappointment/bitterness showing up from the women (and fewer mass shootings, too ….)

[Anonymous]

the ones in the compact that choose to sign trump's "government get to control education" bribe agreement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:W&L, CMC, Hillsdale, TCU, BYU, TAMU, Baylor, Sewanee

Correct. Add U Alabama & U Mississippi.

Can't believe that someone thought that WashUStL was conservative.

Did they think so since it's in Missouri?

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Schools are neither liberal nor conservative -- those are purely political words and even if you were majoring in political science in college you would by definition need to be studying BOTH liberal and conservative politics and ever other part of the political spectrum.

Colleges are academic institutions and teach everything and approach their varies subjects accordingly. Some subjects may appeal to liberal kids and some appeal to conservative kids but none are purely one political thing or another.

Curious to know what liberal or conservative engineering looks like, or conservative math or liberal computer science?

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Anonymous wrote:W&L, CMC, Hillsdale, TCU, BYU, TAMU, Baylor, Sewanee

Can't believe that someone thought that WashUStL was conservative.

Probably because they never set foot at WashU nor Missouri, nevermind the fact that it's in St. Louis which, like most large enough cities, tend to be liberal.

Missouri is a totally Koch-blocked red state with extreme gerrymandering and extreme oppression of "liberals"

Are they coming for WashU next?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Define conservative. By definition, education learning new things, new approaches, meeting new people and ideas tends to be a liberal tenet.

One would think so. Unfortunately the progressive left has forgotten this. Statistics show they are the most intolerant, and now Democrats are more likely to refuse to date or be friends with conservatives and boasts of cutting off family and old friends over views is much more common on the left than the right. So I'd be careful in making these kinds of assumptions. Any pragmatic person who's been through the elite Ivory tower knows they are the most ideologically rigid and unforgiving of any higher education institutions.

I don't know what OP is looking for, but it she or he is looking for the old fashioned concept of liberal, aka a genuine tolerance of diversity of viewpoints, best places are probably the big state universities and southern schools. Faculty will be D voters but students are all across the spectrum with minimal pressure to hide their views.

I would guess this is women unwilling to date men who think they are second class citizens/shouldn't have bodily autonomy. I don't find that surprising at all, tolerating a view point doesn't require you to date them.

+1000

This was true for me and my peers in the 1990s and 2000s. And I expect it will remain the same for DD and her peers in the decade or two two come.

Dating has always been a self-sorting process. The only “new” part of this is the big jump in the number of very conservative young men without a similar shift from young women.

The result is that conservative men are facing a smaller dating pool. The same is true for liberal women, by the way. There’s a major population mismatch going on right now, but recent research shows that young women are more focused on first establishing a career than getting married and having kids. So there’s less disappointment/bitterness showing up from the women (and fewer mass shootings, too ….)

A smaller dating pool, maybe, but one filled with much better-looking women. Compare the young ladies on the cover of that "Cruel Kids' Table" New York Magazine cover (especially that SMU sorority girl on the bottom left) to the ones you typically see protesting for left-wing causes. On second thought, there is no comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:My answer is the only liberal schools in America are the 18 research universities who dared stand up to Trump with Harvard by joining an amicus brief. Oldest just graduated from one not on this list, while youngest is at one on this list. If I had another, I think I'd insist they only go to one of these superior schools:

Boston University; Brown University; California Institute of Technology; Colorado State University; Dartmouth College; Johns Hopkins University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michigan State University; Oregon State University; Princeton University; Rice University; Rutgers University; Tufts University; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Oregon; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; and Yale University.

7 out of 19 are public
The privates have $

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools are neither liberal nor conservative -- those are purely political words and even if you were majoring in political science in college you would by definition need to be studying BOTH liberal and conservative politics and ever other part of the political spectrum.

Colleges are academic institutions and teach everything and approach their varies subjects accordingly. Some subjects may appeal to liberal kids and some appeal to conservative kids but none are purely one political thing or another.

Curious to know what liberal or conservative engineering looks like, or conservative math or liberal computer science?

Student populations certainly lean liberal or conservative. And they also vary in their acceptance of others with different viewpoints.

I think a lot of center-right/center-left students would prefer to be at schools that tolerate different viewpoints. It’s not always easy to figure out what schools are that way.

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Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine. Although despite the Christian moniker a poll of students in the 2023 elections had Kamala up 65%.

California conservatives would be called liberals in the South….

Other than the fact that California holds claim to the most prolific and well respected conservative president in our lifetime.

…who now would have been called a RINO and run out of the current GOP..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools are neither liberal nor conservative -- those are purely political words and even if you were majoring in political science in college you would by definition need to be studying BOTH liberal and conservative politics and ever other part of the political spectrum.

Colleges are academic institutions and teach everything and approach their varies subjects accordingly. Some subjects may appeal to liberal kids and some appeal to conservative kids but none are purely one political thing or another.

Curious to know what liberal or conservative engineering looks like, or conservative math or liberal computer science?

Student populations certainly lean liberal or conservative. And they also vary in their acceptance of others with different viewpoints.

I think a lot of center-right/center-left students would prefer to be at schools that tolerate different viewpoints. It’s not always easy to figure out what schools are that way.

This really isn't a thing real life at colleges. Kids are kids, and they just want to go to class and parties and get a degree. How many college kids do you know who are standing around campus discussing old people politics all day long?

[Anonymous]

OP here - no, not talking about the other students' political leaning, or even the faculty for that matter. Asking about which university boards/admins are changing to Trumpism.

The ones in charge will determine the direction/teaching at that school. So, yes, looks like UVA is headed that way. Wash U - not sure - but MO is gerrymandering like crazy and only a matter of time before they take control of Wash U.

TX legislature will take control over TX schools, at least the publics.

Agree with a PP maybe it's the ones that sign this new blackmailing compact.

[Anonymous]

^lol, BU has never been described as superior in anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W&L, CMC, Hillsdale, TCU, BYU, TAMU, Baylor, Sewanee

Correct. Add U Alabama & U Mississippi.

Can't believe that someone thought that WashUStL was conservative.

Auburn is much more conservative than U Alabama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Define conservative. By definition, education learning new things, new approaches, meeting new people and ideas tends to be a liberal tenet.

One would think so. Unfortunately the progressive left has forgotten this. Statistics show they are the most intolerant, and now Democrats are more likely to refuse to date or be friends with conservatives and boasts of cutting off family and old friends over views is much more common on the left than the right. So I'd be careful in making these kinds of assumptions. Any pragmatic person who's been through the elite Ivory tower knows they are the most ideologically rigid and unforgiving of any higher education institutions.

I don't know what OP is looking for, but it she or he is looking for the old fashioned concept of liberal, aka a genuine tolerance of diversity of viewpoints, best places are probably the big state universities and southern schools. Faculty will be D voters but students are all across the spectrum with minimal pressure to hide their views.

I would guess this is women unwilling to date men who think they are second class citizens/shouldn't have bodily autonomy. I don't find that surprising at all, tolerating a view point doesn't require you to date them.

+1000

This was true for me and my peers in the 1990s and 2000s. And I expect it will remain the same for DD and her peers in the decade or two two come.

Dating has always been a self-sorting process. The only “new” part of this is the big jump in the number of very conservative young men without a similar shift from young women.

The result is that conservative men are facing a smaller dating pool. The same is true for liberal women, by the way. There’s a major population mismatch going on right now, but recent research shows that young women are more focused on first establishing a career than getting married and having kids. So there’s less disappointment/bitterness showing up from the women (and fewer mass shootings, too ….)

Based on what Ive seen, there's many more frustrated liberal single women than frustrated single conservative men who can't find spouses. NYC and DC are packed with childless single women and it's been observed that it's a significant factor behind the leftward drift of the Democratic party and the party's embracing of controversial social topics. Meanwhile married women continue to trend more centrist and even conservative. Being married and having children clearly brings out greater conservatism in people, for both men and women.

As for schools, most state schools are going to be more apolitical than political. The local regional university near me has everyone, more or less, and a pretty chill atmosphere. I concur with a PP who said most kids going to college aren't looking for politics or agonize over politics all day long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Define conservative. By definition, education learning new things, new approaches, meeting new people and ideas tends to be a liberal tenet.

One would think so. Unfortunately the progressive left has forgotten this. Statistics show they are the most intolerant, and now Democrats are more likely to refuse to date or be friends with conservatives and boasts of cutting off family and old friends over views is much more common on the left than the right. So I'd be careful in making these kinds of assumptions. Any pragmatic person who's been through the elite Ivory tower knows they are the most ideologically rigid and unforgiving of any higher education institutions.

I don't know what OP is looking for, but it she or he is looking for the old fashioned concept of liberal, aka a genuine tolerance of diversity of viewpoints, best places are probably the big state universities and southern schools. Faculty will be D voters but students are all across the spectrum with minimal pressure to hide their views.

I would guess this is women unwilling to date men who think they are second class citizens/shouldn't have bodily autonomy. I don't find that surprising at all, tolerating a view point doesn't require you to date them.

+1000

This was true for me and my peers in the 1990s and 2000s. And I expect it will remain the same for DD and her peers in the decade or two two come.

Dating has always been a self-sorting process. The only “new” part of this is the big jump in the number of very conservative young men without a similar shift from young women.

The result is that conservative men are facing a smaller dating pool. The same is true for liberal women, by the way. There’s a major population mismatch going on right now, but recent research shows that young women are more focused on first establishing a career than getting married and having kids. So there’s less disappointment/bitterness showing up from the women (and fewer mass shootings, too ….)

Based on what Ive seen, there's many more frustrated liberal single women than frustrated single conservative men who can't find spouses. NYC and DC are packed with childless single women and it's been observed that it's a significant factor behind the leftward drift of the Democratic party and the party's embracing of controversial social topics. Meanwhile married women continue to trend more centrist and even conservative. Being married and having children clearly brings out greater conservatism in people, for both men and women.

As for schools, most state schools are going to be more apolitical than political. The local regional university near me has everyone, more or less, and a pretty chill atmosphere. I concur with a PP who said most kids going to college aren't looking for politics or agonize over politics all day long.

+1000
Well said.