The far right conservatives have a new "tool" for pushing their agenda and it directly target's higher education. CampusReform.org is the name of the site that will publicly launch on September 15th, but the information is already there and ready to be viewed. This site offers a realm where young conservatives and libertarians, as the site specifically outlines, can go and report their teachers for being radical liberals or for using a course text that is a bit too leftist.
CampusReform.org is designed to provide conservative activists with the resources, networking capabilities, and skills they need to revolutionize the struggle against leftist bias and abuse on college campuses.Created to give conservatives powerful new weapons in their fight for the hearts and minds of the next generation of citizens, politicians, and members of the media, CampusReform.org facilitates the establishment of conservative student networks and supports their development as a powerful voice of activism on their campuses. It makes available new opportunities for groups’ interaction with alumni, parents, faculty, and other members of the broader community interested in taking a stand for conservative principles on America’s college campuses.
Connecting up-to-date communications technologies to a principled stand for limited government, the free market, national defense, and traditional values, CampusReform.org makes possible a new generation of student activism to identify, expose, and combat the radical left now.
The site is established by "The Leadership Institute". A conservative organization dedicated to providing young conservatives with a organizing boot camp, from which they hope to produce the next generation of little Karl Roves.
Established in 1979, the Leadership Institute seeks to increase the number and effectiveness of conservative activists across the country. To do that, LI identifies, recruits, trains, and places conservatives in government , politics, and the media, enrolling more than 74,000 students in its unique programs since its inception.They call to specific branch of the organization handling the movement tied to the website is "The Leadership Institute’s Campus Leadership Program" or "CLP" for short.These students learn the expertise necessary to flourish in positions of influence in public policy. No other organization can give you so many skills for public policy and personal success.
Under the direction of its founder and president Morton Blackwell, the Leadership Institute has become the premier training ground for tomorrow’s conservative leaders. Conservative leaders, organizations, and activists rely on the Institute’s seminars and workshops for the preparation they require for victory in the world of public policy.
In addition to conducting programs nationwide, the Institute helps conservatives launch their careers.
CLP group members are trained how to:So basically this organization has created a way to bash teachers because students disagree with their political views, but not all students just the conservative ones.CLP groups get advice and other services from CLP national staff and are eligible to receive grants and scholarships to support their activism.
- Fight political correctness and leftist abuses and bias
- Build a grassroots student organization
- Host conservative speakers and events on campus
- Start a conservative publication on campus
- Win student government elections
I don't know how anyone else feels about this but I see it as a major problem. If this site ever reaches the level of effectiveness they want then teacher's will be afraid to use certain works because of the backlash they may receive. This site will harbor reason like "we shouldn't read the communist manifesto because it's communist and that's a leftist view" regardless of how valuable it is to students to understand all sides and theories and have exposure to them. If we start limiting what higher education can and can not teach because a student feels that his or her teacher may be a bit too liberal then we loose what higher education really is. We transform high education, the realm of free thought and exploring subjects to gain knowledge, in high school, the realm of strictly outlined subject matter that normally hits somewhere in the middle of the road as to not offend anyone.
As a Democrat and a student at Kansas State University I am in the position of being surround by people on a daily basis that disagree with my views, with my beliefs and my political opinions. Do I have a site where I can go and rant about my teachers being too conservative or the readings for class being too far to the left? No, and if I did I wouldn't use it because it is part of life to have to accept that people don't agree with you and you will have to study certain things you aren't exactly comfortable with or in line with politically. I find it both sad and pathetic that the far right is launching this campaign to hold teacher accountable for garnering the leftist movement in their classes.
Here is a complete list of the so called Biased Textbooks
Not only does this site encourage us to call out our teachers on the site but accuses colleges of being "leftist indoctrination centers".
Most colleges and universities are not what they pretend to be. They are not places for inquiring minds to learn in an open market of ideas. In fact, they are leftist indoctrination centers which systematically attack and often exclude ideas and people favorable to limited government, free enterprise, strong national defense, and traditional values. No wonder the college experience turns so many students to the left. Most of those in power in academia are leftists, and they intend that result. The guilty administrators, faculty, official school newspapers, student governments, leftist student groups, and others know exactly what they are doing. They would like to exterminate any presentation of conservative or free-market principles, and they take personal satisfaction from the results of their leftist abuses and bias.and even more crazy...
The left will not like your challenge, and will almost certainly use lies and distortions to try to discredit you if they can, so proceed carefully. But keep the pressure up and increase it if you can. It's better to slightly understate than to overstate your case. Don't necessarily fire all of your facts at once. Release enough to earn some good media coverage. Keep the story alive and growing by revealing some new information or additional proof later, preferably after the left has responded. Don't fail to show a high level of moral indignation against the abuses you are fighting. The news media and your fellow students may appreciate cleverness, but they react negatively to unfairness if you properly call it to their attention. Moral indignation is one of the most powerful human emotions. It is seldom engaged, but when it is, it tends to cause real changes because it's highly contagious. Leftist abuses and bias are newsworthy -- if you shine a light on them, Local, state, and even national news media may cover your disclosures. The left hates that. They have to respond, which makes your news story bigger. Conservative print, broadcast, and online media should have a keen interest in helping you get your newsworthy issues to the public.














Comments (3)
Re: "If this site ever reaches the level of effectiveness they want then teacher's will be afraid to use certain works because of the backlash they may receive."
I think you may have missed the point of the site. Conservative students at most universities are attacked for their political views by teachers on a consistent basis. (This can work the other way at more conservative schools with conservative professors, who attack leftist students). The point of having a site where conservative students can connect and spread ways of communicating their beliefs is more openness, not less openness. Additionally, it is foolish to deny that professors do not act on their political beliefs just as much as normal citizens. If you take a look at campaign contributions, you'll find that professors support leftist political candidates overwhelmingly. It's not "crazy" to assume that their personal political beliefs translate into attacks on people (even students) who disagree with them.
Posted by Elise
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September 3, 2009 2:33 PM
Posted on September 3, 2009 14:33
"Do I have a site where I can go and rant about my teachers being too conservative or the readings for class being too far to the left? No."
http://www.campusprogress.org
Posted by Tabitha Hale
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September 3, 2009 4:00 PM
Posted on September 3, 2009 16:00
More often than not, the professors and administration are leftists and allow the abuses of students and other faculty members who disagree with their mindset. This site is designed to hold those professors and administrators accountable for their actions.
If you would take the time to actually understand the site, you would notice that it's not JUST for students. It's also for faculty, community members, alumni, parents and friends of the university and/or conservative student groups.
"Do I have a site where I can go and rant about my teachers being too conservative or the readings for class being too far to the left? No, and if I did I wouldn't use it because it is part of life to have to accept that people don't agree with you and you will have to study certain things you aren't exactly comfortable with or in line with politically." It's not ranting when your grades are effected because you disagree with your professor's political viewpoints or a professor offers you extra credit for, "getting arrested at a protest or burning an American flag" (this actually happened at one school). Students shouldn't be graded based on political views, but on academic ability.
Learn more about the site and the organization before you go off ranting without knowing all the facts.
-SLWS-
Posted by SLWS
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September 3, 2009 4:11 PM
Posted on September 3, 2009 16:11