[So where religion atrophies, family weakens and patriotism ebbs, other forms of group identity inevitably assert themselves. It is not a coincidence that identity politics are particularly potent on elite college campuses, the most self-consciously post-religious and post-nationalist of institutions; nor is it a coincidence that recent outpourings of campus protest, activism, racial paranoia, speech policing, and sexual moralizing so often resemble religious extremism.

The contemporary college student lives most fully in the Lennonist eco-system that post-'60s liberalism sought to build, and often finds it unconsoling: She wants a sense of belonging, a ground for personal morality, and a higher horizon of justice than either a purely procedural or a strictly material liberal politics supplies.] -Ross Douthat

It's interesting how higher tuition fees seem to lead to more protests on campus. I think it makes sense because students pay more and expect better services and resources in return. When their expectations are not met, it is natural for them to express their concerns. It reminds me of how sometimes we struggle to complete tasks, especially difficult subjects like math. Fortunately, there are helpful resources like https://edubirdie.com/do-my-math-homework that can take some of the academic pressure off with homework help. It's all about finding the right balance and support to get you through college life!

[It's old news that universities are not particularly friendly grounds for conservatives. Every so often, a new study looks at the partisan affiliation of professors in various academic disciplines, and it's never pretty.
Business, economics, and the hard sciences are always home court for Republicans, but at the average college, no academic department comes close to parity. On the other hand, conservatism in some academic departments is utterly extinct or even unimaginable: In sociology and communications, the odds of finding a conservative prof are literally 100:1, or, in some places, worse.

Conservatives have been complaining about universities since before conservatism was even a coherent movement, but nothing much has been accomplished. Bill Buckley rose to prominence after publishing God and Man at Yale in 1951, but despite his needling of the professorial class, the dregs of '60s radicalism ended up filling the ranks of the academy (bombing American military bases is apparently an excellent qualification for teaching college students).

The results have been disastrous. The left has consolidated its position into complete dominance of higher education, which serves as the principal apparatus of elite production in postindustrial society. This provides it with enormous cultural and political influence, while slowly choking conservative political possibilities by depriving the Republican Party of the expertise and trained personnel necessary to effectively exert political power in the modern state. The result is Republican administrations that are barely able to staff their own bureaucracies: They appoint twice as many Democrats to executive branch positions as Democratic presidents appoint Republicans.

Republicans at all levels had decades to deal with what has been an obvious issue since the genesis of modern conservatism; why the inertia? Some of it, it seems, was because Republicans naively didn't take universities seriously. Campus problems, surely, would remain confined to campusesstudents would come out, wise up to the world, and leave radicalism on the quad. But much seems to have been a reverence for the founding mythology of academia: the sacred rights of faculty self-governance and academic freedom.
It's time to put old illusions aside and recognize what universities have become: a patronage system for the left and a political machine for Democrats.

Colleges and universities systematically discriminate against conservative professors and students. Hundreds of billions of dollars of state and federal funds go to establish professors of critical gender studies and fund research projects whose sole purpose is to decry America as an evil and oppressive state...]


https://www.theamericanconservative.com/its-time-for-the-gop-to-play-hardball-with-public-universities/?utm_source=The+American+Conservative&utm_campaign=7f68d151b7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-f78efd3b53-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=7f68d151b7&mc_eid=783db60a2b

Baylor heading toward having a lot of protests soon....


[the Board approved an increase in Baylor's tuition and fees for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year. After accounting for financial aid and extensive need-based and merit scholarship opportunities, the average net out-of-pocket increase in tuition and fees per incoming student is expected to be $2,255 annually.

The sticker price for Baylor's tuition and fees will increase from $58,100 in 2024-25 to $63,620 next year.]