NoIndoctrination.org

Subject: NoIndoctrination.org Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:49 am

"Institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interest of either the individual teacher or the institution as a whole. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition." From Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure; American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

News Flash!
Read "Campus Speech Codes: Absurd, Tenacious, and Everywhere" by FIRE's Greg Lukianoff here.

Read Alan Charles Kors' piece "On the Sadness of Higher Education" here.
"Critics of higher education who blame students for today’s catastrophes are categorically wrong about agency. It is the faculties (both the minority of zealots and the majority of cowards) and the administrations (both the minority of ideologues and the majority of careerists with double standards) who are to blame."

Read "Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment" here. Two related articles can be read here and here.

"Science is the most global and universal of enterprises. It should never be particularized to fit the purported needs of a specific race, gender, or class. It behooves all who care about the integrity of science to resist those who would co-opt the science classroom to advance their political agendas."

Read Professor Noretta Koertge's essay "Political Correctness in the Science Classroom" here.

Universities in a free society should be places where open minds can flourish and examine ideas from a variety of reasoned perspectives. In recent years, however, sociopolitical agendas often drive the discourse - supplanting, suppressing, and ultimately excluding alternative views. NoIndoctrination.org provides a forum for college students to report courses and programs that in their opinion contain severe bias or amount to indoctrination.

If you believe you have experienced courses or orientation programs that advance one-sided social or political ideologies, denigrate alternative views, or create an intimidating atmosphere for expressing diverse opinions, please post your experiences here (and, if possible, send corroborating material). The information we gather will help us in our mission to promote open inquiry in academia.

http://www.noindoctrination.org/
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