The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is having a “Welcome to College” weekend! Before a freshman student actually shows up for his or her first class in the fall, he or she is likely to participate in one or two pre-college exercises: a summer reading program and orientation.

Today, Harry Painter takes a look at summer reading programs and finds them seriously lacking: instead of choosing books that inspire, universities tend to choose books that play on students’ emotions in order to influence their worldviews in a leftward direction.

On Monday, a new student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will relate his experience at freshman orientation. It started out okay, but as each layer of the onion got peeled back, his orientation leaders became more aggressively indoctrinating. More on that on Monday.