68.8.31: Classrooms
Improving Our Nation’s Classrooms. Other Information:
Higher education faces its own challenges, many of which stem from the poor preparation of students before they reach college.
One consequence has been the multiplying number of remedial courses for freshmen. Even so, our universities, large and small,
public or private, form the world’s greatest assemblage of learning. They drive much of the research that keeps America competitive
and, by admitting large numbers of foreign students, convey our values and culture to the world. Ideological bias is deeply
entrenched within the current university system. Whatever the solution in private institutions may be, in State institutions
the trustees have a responsibility to the public to ensure that their enormous investment is not abused for political indoctrination.
We call on State officials to ensure that our public colleges and universities be places of learning and the exchange of ideas,
not zones of intellectual intolerance favoring the Left.
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