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New York Magazine wrote:EDUCATION JAN. 5, 2019 Fed Up With Liberal Academia, Conservatives Call for Their Own Safe Space
By Sarah Jones
Conservative academia is in crisis, and to protect it, a new right-leaning research university must be founded in the United States. This is the argument presented by the American Enterprise Institute’s Frederick M. Hess and Brendan Bell in the latest issue of National Affairs. Noting that there are now relatively few right-leaning academics, the researchers, who both specialize in education policy, say conservatives need “a place where serious scholars can have the space to pursue questions and subjects that don’t fit the progressive orthodoxy.” They lay out extensive plans for how such an institution might operate, down to the number of students (4,200 undergraduates and 2,400 graduate students) and average salaries for various faculty members (ranging from $300,000 for endowed chairs to $120,000 for assistant professors).
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This proposal may be unusually detailed, but it isn’t novel. Figures on the right have long argued that institutions of higher education in the U.S. are hypocritically intolerant of conservative ideas, and the only solution is to separate from liberal academia. Over the past four decades, this notion birthed a constellation of Christian colleges and universities, from the small but ambitious Patrick Henry College, which was founded in 1998 and famously profiled in Hanna Rosin’s 2007 book God’s Harvard: A Christian College On A Mission To Save America, to Liberty University, which was established in 1971 by Jerry Falwell. Liberty University, in particular, has grown into a powerful institution on the right. Its current president, Jerry Falwell Jr., has the ear of Donald Trump, and Liberty functions both as a pipeline to D.C. for young, conservative talent and as a landing pad for washed-up Republican lawmakers. For example, on Tuesday the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that former Congressman Dave Brat, who lost his reelection bid in November, will become the dean of Liberty’s business school.
New York Magazine wrote:EDUCATION JAN. 5, 2019 Fed Up With Liberal Academia, Conservatives Call for Their Own Safe Space
By Sarah Jones
Conservative academia is in crisis, and to protect it, a new right-leaning research university must be founded in the United States. This is the argument presented by the American Enterprise Institute’s Frederick M. Hess and Brendan Bell in the latest issue of National Affairs. Noting that there are now relatively few right-leaning academics, the researchers, who both specialize in education policy, say conservatives need “a place where serious scholars can have the space to pursue questions and subjects that don’t fit the progressive orthodoxy.” They lay out extensive plans for how such an institution might operate, down to the number of students (4,200 undergraduates and 2,400 graduate students) and average salaries for various faculty members (ranging from $300,000 for endowed chairs to $120,000 for assistant professors).
We get a shout-out:
This proposal may be unusually detailed, but it isn’t novel. Figures on the right have long argued that institutions of higher education in the U.S. are hypocritically intolerant of conservative ideas, and the only solution is to separate from liberal academia. Over the past four decades, this notion birthed a constellation of Christian colleges and universities, from the small but ambitious Patrick Henry College, which was founded in 1998 and famously profiled in Hanna Rosin’s 2007 book God’s Harvard: A Christian College On A Mission To Save America, to Liberty University, which was established in 1971 by Jerry Falwell. Liberty University, in particular, has grown into a powerful institution on the right. Its current president, Jerry Falwell Jr., has the ear of Donald Trump, and Liberty functions both as a pipeline to D.C. for young, conservative talent and as a landing pad for washed-up Republican lawmakers. For example, on Tuesday the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that former Congressman Dave Brat, who lost his reelection bid in November, will become the dean of Liberty’s business school.
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