Forty-four percent of Democrats surveyed “strongly agreed” that public four-year colleges and universities are for people like them, according to Varying Degrees 2023, the nonprofit New America’s seventh annual higher education survey.
Only 21 percent of surveyed Republicans “strongly agreed.”
Sarah Lawrence College political science Professor Samuel Abrams said he believes the findings are in part due to political polarization.
Polarization “is the phenomenon where individuals’ feelings and emotions towards members of their own political party or group become more positive, while their feelings towards members of the opposing party or group become more negative,” Abrams told The College Fix via email.
Because of left-leaning polarization in colleges and universities, “those on the right are increasingly disliked and viewed as enemies when they are on campuses today,” said Abrams, a fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute.
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The long march through in institutions means that those who are not part of the party will not feel comfortable in those institutions (in the hope that they will willingly self-segregate and stay away from “proper” society that does feel comfortable within the socialistic all).
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. South Africa is now learning, to their dismay, that a similar approach in power generation may, indeed, have negative consequenses (e.g. it turns out that it IS a bug).
Seeing as politics is mostly BS.. Its very bad that its firmly implanted in schools.. What are we creating? Worktards incapable of rational thinking.. Russia is laughing at us..
The vast majority of university departments could be shut down and no one would notice other than the credentialed who couldn’t get jobs elsewhere
Have you heard? More people than ever before are graduating college with IQ’s below 90. Tells you how good colleges are today.