We recently noted that the Twitter hashtag, #MyLiberalCampus, has been a great resource for conservative students to document liberal bias on their campuses and to transmit that information nationally.

Now, Kim Kozlowski of The Detroit News takes an in-depth look at how social media is helping conservative students deal with liberal “tolerance” on their campuses.

Jordan Zammit was in a political science class at Central Michigan University when the professor said something about the military that really offended him.

But instead of keeping quiet, the student — who has family members in the Army and Marines — pulled up his Twitter account and fired back.

“A professor at #MyLiberalCampus told me only people too poor and dumb for college join the military,” he tweeted to hundreds of his followers.

In that moment, Zammit joined students nationwide who are trying to bring awareness of what it’s like to hold conservative values on college campuses, long considered left-leaning bastions.

Taking a cue from other social media campaigns, college Republicans have turned to Twitter to talk about their experiences, using the #MyLiberalCampus hashtag. The campaign comes as hashtag activism is growing worldwide, protests of political speakers on campuses are spreading and diversity is being increasingly debated within academia.

Experts say hashtag campaigns have highlighted and broadened conversations about issues.

At U-M, the #BBUM campaign led to several meetings with university administrators. That, in turn, produced several initiatives aimed at increasing black enrollment and improving the campus climate for minority students.

The College Republican National Committee launched the #MyLiberalCampus hashtag this year when Jason Veley, a student at Eastern Connecticut State University, recorded his creative writing professor referring to Republicans as “racist, misogynist, money-grubbing people (who) have so much power over the rest of us and want things to go back, not to 1955 but to 1855.”

The professor, Brent Terry, issued a written apology through the university after the audio that Veley had recorded during the class got media attention.

Around the same time, the #MyLiberalCampus campaign was launched, and hundreds of students from across the country jumped in to tell stories about their frustration, said Alex Smith, national chairman of the College Republicans.

On Twitter, students lamented about their “commie” professors; how their university did nothing after college Republican meeting announcements were torn down and vandalized, and a case where an instructor remarked that Republicans were worse than pedophiles.

According to the College Republican National Committee, more than 250,000 student Republicans are on more than 1,800 campuses in every state and the District of Columbia.