Campus unrest confirms that the left is out of control

For a few weeks,  I've watched this insane atmosphere at several universities.  

Of course, we are willing to hear legitimate grievances from students.    There is a way and a place to present complaints.   

However, I don't believe that most adults in the US want to watch brats acting like brats or mobs take over institutions of higher learning.

Furthermore, I know that many of us are tired of college administrators who will not stand up to bullies.

My friend Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor and guest on our show, posted something very important today about this movement and the damage it is doing to itself:   

The current spectacle of campus upheaval in so many U.S.

colleges and universities is a dark omen for what has become

in recent years a “liberal” education. (Please notice that I do

not say “liberal arts” education.) Unfortunately, U.S. higher 

education on very many campuses, including virtually all of

those which have traditionally held the most prestige, has

become overwhelmingly politicized to the far left, a

consequence of the views and impositions of many

professors at these institutions.

Campus life began to change dramatically in the 1960s as

many students and professors joined a national antiwar

movement protesting our involvement in Viet Nam. This was

the time that I was attending both undergraduate and graduate

universities, one in the East and the other in the Midwest. (In

full disclosure, I participated in some of those protests.

After Viet Nam, campus life in most institutions of higher

learning “quieted down,” only to re-heat following the end of

the Cold War in the early 1990s when aggressive U.S.

radicalism and neo-Marxism, having no power base in the

then-defunct Soviet Union and the turning-to-state-capitalism

of China, went into political hibernation on American campuses.

During the administration of President George W. Bush, this

radical impetus was revived on campuses across the nation,

and was accompanied by the rise of “political correctness”

and various “hot button” issues such as global warming and

racism.

The attempt to intimidate college administrations by student

and professor protest, of course, is not new, but one might

think that college presidents today would have learned 

something from the past. The shameful spectacle of college

presidents now pandering to these protesters indicates that

they have not learned much from the past.

In the 1960s, the most expensive college education (at an Ivy

League university, for example) was about $2500 per year. Today,

that price tag is approaching $70,000 per year! By paralyzing

campuses, destroying a true “liberal education,” and wrecking

the value of higher education in the work place, the current

upheaval, it would seem, is sowing the seeds of its own

destruction. How many parents, regardless of their own views,

are willing to shell out between $10,000 and $70,000 per year

per student for a degree that will have reduced or little value?

Colleges and universities will survive, but the current sad

spectacle will likely only hasten the demise of traditional campus

life. For the first time in history, there is a credible alternative,

and that is quality online higher education.

In their quest to destruct American higher education, the radical

students and professors only hasten the exhaustion of their own

unstable and self-annihilating movement.

The bad news is that we are watching college and university administrators acting like cowards.   The good news is that the country is taking a close look at our dysfunctional colleges and universities.    

The left will lose this temper tantrum and regret the day that the whole country saw what is really going on in many of these classrooms.

Let me bring back a popular phrase from the left:   "The whole world is watching".

Yes, the whole world is watching and the people paying the taxes, and tuition, are not liking what they see.

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