David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin explain why the University of California at Santa Cruz is far and away the most radical university in the United States, and they do not spare the institution’s Regents for their complicity in earning it this dubious distinction:

The “Standing Orders of the Regents,” passed in September 2005, make unmistakably clear that political indoctrination and partisan interest have no place in the university curriculum and that the regents are obligated to maintain its standards:

[The Regents] are responsible to see that the University remain aloof from politics and never function as an instrument for the advance of partisan interest. Misuse of the classroom by, for example, allowing it to be used for political indoctrination, for purposes other than those for which the course was constituted…constitutes misuse of the University as an institution.[6]

In the liberal arts programs of the University of Santa Cruz, however, the violation of this policy and the consequent abuse of the institution and its students is a routine fact of academic life.