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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The author has some good points, though there is little new here that has not been written in other recent election post-mortems.
Regardless of all hand wringing about elite universities’ collective role, we still chose to send ours to one, will likely send our D25 to one, and went to ivies ourselves. From the parent page and talks with parents, it has been fascinating to learn there were more college republican groups on campus this year than for the past cycles, though the dominant group is overwhelmingly liberal or at least never-Trump.  It does not distress me nor my wife to have our kids be at liberal leaning institutions: all the great ones are. There have always been plenty of social liberals in their 20s who later become fiscal conservatives in their 40s. Bright minds can see the benefits of multiple points of view and our kid’s ivy for the most part is doing much better with supporting all views and not banning certain opinions than they were a couple of yrs ago. The tide was turned on safe-spaces and memorized virtue-signaling speech. Yes, even at ivies, the pendulum has started to swing back. The education is very much well worth the $, with the top faculty and top careers/phD/JD feeding that happen with such a known school. Zero regrets. [/quote]

Thank you so much for this. We’re starting to focus more deeply on the college search with DC26, and we are eager to find rigorous schools that welcome multiple points of view, both socially and in the classroom. Not because we are especially conservative (we’re not), but because we are eager for our kids to challenge their/our assumptions and consider the world from many different points of view. This includes a range of economic perspectives, as well, which I know is not easy to find at elite universities.

On a related note, I just saw this article but have not read it yet. I hope it’s a harbinger of better things to come (a correction / the pendulum swinging back):

Thinking Allowed: Promoting Free Speech in the Classroom

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/thinking-allowed-promoting-free-speech-classroom[/quote]

FIRE ranks schools on free speech: https://www.thefire.org/[/quote]

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