And. . . weirdness continues. I just saw a commercial for my university on MSNBC. Although it would surely be nice to have a bit of political diversity on our uniformly Fox-Newsified campus, the likelihood that prospective students or their families are watching MSNBC is negligible.
But yes, the idea that the new generation of students would include at least a few people from families that watch Sex and the City and MSNBC is very attractive. You have no idea how hard it is to foment discussions in a classroom where everybody is exactly the same ideologically, politically and culturally.
It’s also frustrating that everybody keeps pretending that uniformly conservative campuses like ours do not exist. “Academia is in the hands of Liberals” is a ridiculous myth created by people who have no experience of the actual US academia. The only myth that is more bizarre is “Ivy League schools are in the hands of Liberal administrators.”
The very expression “Liberal college administrators” makes no sense whatsoever. Probably people confuse administrators with support staff (all those bureaucratic grunts who sit in Diversity and Multiculturalism offices, issuing endless memos.) But those people don’t really have political opinions. Their only motivation is to create as much paperwork as possible so that their jobs are not made redundant. The day when I meet an actual Liberal administrator will be a day to remember because they are more rare than unicorns.
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