It’s good to know someone is willing to stick up for conservative college students.

Campus Reform reports.

GOP platform denounces ‘indoctrination’ by campus liberals

The Republican Party’s official 2016 platform includes several promising planks related to higher education, including reduced federal subsidies and enhanced speech protections.

Within the 66 pages of the GOP platform, the Party emphasizes several higher education issues, including Obama’s handling of sexual discrimination, federal financial aid, liberalism on campuses, and the need to encourage new systems of learning to complement traditional four-year colleges.

Perhaps the most high-profile topics mentioned, though, are free speech and academic freedom, which have been under relentless attack by university administrators of late.

“Our colleges, universities, and trade schools…form the world’s greatest assemblage of learning,” but “their excellence is being undermined by an ideological bias deeply entrenched within the current university system,” the Party asserts, saying that while private institutions should be free to find their own solutions, the trustees of state schools “have a responsibility to the taxpayers to ensure that their enormous investment is not abused for political indoctrination.”

Calling attention to the underlying educational mission of colleges and universities, the platform explicitly rejects the idea of creating “zones of intellectual intolerance, or ‘safe zones,’ as if college students need protection from the free exchange of ideas,” mentioning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a particularly egregious threat to free and open discourse on campus.


 
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