People are beginning to recognize that higher ed suffers from a bit of a problem when it comes to intellectual diversity and individual rights. And they are trying to do something about it. University of Colorado at Boulder chancellor Bud Peterson, for example, is trying to raise $9 million to endow the nation's first chair of conservative thought and policy. But while the impulse is a good one--campuses need to see a lot of intellectual variety than they presently do--the method leaves something to be desired. As the folks at the Americans for Tax Reform blog put it,
That’s great CU is looking to address the lack of intellectual diversity on their campus, but I’m not sure that plugging in one token conservative professor is the best way to go about it. For true progress, universities must foster overall diversity in opinion and philosophy amongst professors and students, rather than plant one loner to, as George Will put it, be studied in the same way that anthropologists study a foreign culture.
The ATR people then go on to mention Indoctrinate U as a film that offers a careful, exemplary analysis of the problem: "The Moving Picture Institute provides an outstanding portrayal of the lack of diversity in thought across American universities and the suppression of speech on campus in their highly acclaimed documentary, Indoctrinate U."
That's an awesome compliment--and we're happy to accept it!
Indoctrinate U director and star Evan Coyne Maloney will be on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning.