Just throwing the idea out here for consideration.

Seems to me that one of the problems with education today is that most academic institutions are so liberal and by extension anti-gun that it can be demoralizing for young men and women who share our beliefs.

Wouldn't it be a great way to influence the future of this great country by helping send idealistic, intelligent and freedom loving young adults to school?

I'm not talking about floating the whole bill, but seems to me that even a small scholarship that covered books for the year would be a big help to many families.  With the number of folks we have here we could surely do some good.

It is a simple enough matter to incorporate in a state like Delaware as a not-for-profit so that contributions would be tax deductible.  I'm just looking at my student loan statements and it is depressing what higher education costs these days and if we can help the right types of students succeed, I think it is a noble pursuit.

Anybody else have any interest in something like this?

sounds like a good idea.....

BUT, AFTER THE bia FIASCO there would need to be some very strict stipulations put on who is in control of it before i'd jump in.

mike

Corporations by the very laws that create them have a degree of accoutability.  They have bylaws, directors, books that are audited.  I haven't given much thought to the details, nor will I unless we come to some consensus as to whether we wish to pursue this.

I'm just throwing the concept out there for people to talk about.

With all due respect... BULL!

95%+ of faculty are liberal and this does cloud their teaching, especially in the social sciences/liberal arts such as political science and history where the subject matter is always subjective in its interpretation.  When was the last time you heard one of these 95%ers teaching that the 2nd amendment is not a collective right but is instead an individual right.

My college was incredibly hostile to conservative faculty... In fact they only place where they were not beat down by their colleagues was within the physical sciences and the economic department.  We had one history professor who dared to speak well of the Reagan administration and the cold war that he was ostracized by his fellow faculty and was denied tenure.

I hosted Oliver North at my school.  The same faculty that mandated you attend lectures by central american guerillas and the daughter of Desmond Tutu told students they were not allowed to attend Oliver North's lecture, it was a waste of their time and posed a thread to the diversity the campus was committed to.  WTF?  Differing opinions are a threat to diversity?

Sorry my friend, but you are looking at a corrupted institution from within and perhaps are blinded by that fact.  Incidently, its not the students who are liberal... increasingly they are identifying themselves as conservative and the vast majority support action in the Persian Gulf... hardly demonstrative of a liberal mindset.  What do you think is the position of most faculty on this issue?

DK, I'll look for a cite on that article re: students becoming more conservative.  It was likely the Wasington Times or the Wall Street Journal, maybe the Fox News website.  I read more than a dozen papers a day for work, but I remember reading this article and thinking damn, its about time.

The college was Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.  Attending lectures was often mandated by faculty, even when there was no direct relationship to the course...  Why would science students need to attend lectures on apartheid?  Do chemicals interact differently for black or white scientists?  Somehow I think not.

During the month of January there is a mini-semester in which students take one class that meets daily for three hours per day.  Each J-term had a particular theme and there was at least one lecture on campus a day.  Several of my courses required that I attend each day's lecture regardless of the topic and whether it related or not to my coursework.  Attendence was taken and if you were a no-show it cost you.

I also served on several faculty search committees as well as the search committee for the college's new president - thank God that dipwad is finally leaving at the end of this academic year.  Anyway, they never said they didn't support a candidate because of their politics.  It is just interesting how the "integrity" of their work or publications or research was always the issue.  What sealed the deal for me was when they passed on giving tenure to one conservative faculty member and instead hired some rookie right out of a doctoral program.  The professor who was let go was immediately snatched up by an Ivy...  His work couldn't have been that bad.

I work as an advisor to an international fraternity, in fact I deal with a couple dozen schools in NYS on a semesterly basis.  I work with their faculties who serve as advisors, their Dean of student life, alumni groups and greek life directors.  I have come to the conclusion after doing this for eight years that the incidents described above are not unique in any way.

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