Writing in the New Haven Register, history professor Jay Bergman of Central Connecticut State uses the furor over Rudy Guiliani’s recent remarks to observe that his school, like so many others, doesn’t welcome ideas that conflict with leftist notions.

Among other pieces of evidence, Bergman points out that speakers invited to the CCSU campus last year were all on the left. Given the vitriolic faculty response to Giuliani, it seems likely that any conservative would receive a “volcanic” response.

“The CCSU administration and faculty loudly proclaim their devotion to ‘diversity,’” Bergman writes, “But their commitment is more rhetorical than real. What they really seek is the opposite: a faculty and student body that a racially and ethnically heterogeneous, but that politically think the same things.”

Both civility and openness to debate are in decline at many American campuses. Professor Paul Gottfried pointed out in this piece that things used to be different — leftist faculty members used to relish debate and tried to get students to understand opposing arguments. Sadly, at CCSU and so many other campuses, the faculty are far more intent on indoctrinating students than educating them.