At many colleges and universities these days, students can go through their entire “educations” without ever hearing any good words about the country’s basic institutions. The attacks on them are relentless from “progressives” who want to tear everything down and put in place some utopia of their devising; rarely do students hear anything else.
At the University of North Carolina, however, students might learn something other than leftist ideology. The university approved the creation of its School of Civic Life and Leadership, and it is now up and running. In today’s Martin Center article, Jenna Robinson expounds on this interesting (and to the left, disturbing) turn of events.
Classes will begin this fall. Here’s some of what the school is supposed to do:
Provide course opportunities for students. Courses may focus on the development of democratic competencies informed by American history and the American political tradition, with the purpose of fostering public discourse and civil engagement necessary to promote democracy and benefit society.
With good faculty choices, this could become a serious counterweight to the leftist groupthink that hovers over Chapel Hill like a toxic cloud.
Read the whole thing.