College Guide Reveals 'Whole Truth' About Nation's Top Schools
by Jim Brown
October 13, 2005
(AgapePress) - A new college guide assesses which of America's top schools impose politically correct views on their students or have genuine academic freedom on campus. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has released its 2006 edition of Choosing the Right College. Touted by syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell as "by far the best college guide in America," it includes reports on campus politics and intellectual diversity, and offers advice on which departments, professors, and courses to seek out and those to avoid. And World magazine says "if prospective students and their families want a critical look at what is taught at America's most powerful and celebrated schools, Choosing the Right College may be their only guide."
Editor John Zmirak says the guide is radically different than others because it is underlined by "a comprehensive moral and educational vision of what a college education should be."
"We have as our ideal the traditional Western model of liberal education," Zmirak explains. "That means education in how to be a free man or woman in the Western tradition as informed both by the Christian tradition, the Old Testament, and the Western classical heritage."
The guide provides assessments of each school's curriculum, political atmosphere and social atmosphere, as well as pertinent campus statistics. It also recommends colleges and universities that require a core knowledge of American history, Western culture and biblical tradition, and which have decent campus life. The editor explains why such criteria are critical in higher education.
"Any education which undermines or just simply denies knowledge of the Bible or knowledge of Western history, of classical Greece, or of American history is in effect undermining the educational preparation of students and under-preparing them to be free citizens of the United States," Zmirak adds, "thereby really damaging our country and the students."
In addition, the guide alerts prospective students to colleges and universities where academic radicalism has become dominant on campus -- and warns away from departments that are highly politicized or intellectually bankrupt.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
