<p>the liberal arts are seven areas of study.. designed and preserved by european monks during the middle ages, whom nobody would call "liberal" by todays standards.
Take a look at the St. John's College curriculum to see what liberal arts really means. Liberal Arts colleges are schools that hold that tradition deep.. but, besides St. Johns, have modernized parts of it.
Nothing to do with politics.</p>
<p>I think someone has to define the word "liberal" in order to make this discussion worthwhile.</p>
<p>University of Michigan- Ann Arbor is really liberal</p>
<p>Conservative:
Notre Dame
Samford
Washington and Lee
Sewanee-University of the South
Saint Louis University
Wofford
Vanderbilt
Hampden-Sydney
Grove City College
Wabash
Hillsdale
Calvin
Baylor
Thomas Aquinas (CA)
Pepperdine
University of Dallas
Most southeastern and southern state universities
Rhodes college
Georgetown College</p>
<p>is georgetown reallly conservative? i really like georgetown, but i have been known to get into my fair share of heated debates, and i dont want to be surrounded by people where i will get into one of those debates everyday.</p>
<p>Rhodes College is not that conservative IMO and has substantially more of an Emory feel than a Vanderbilt feel to me. The Georgetown College mentioned above is in Ky. ,not Georgetown U in D.C.</p>
<p>hampshire, saraw lawrence, oberlin, ohio wesleyan, kenyon, reed.</p>
<p>Conservative: Berkeley</p>
<p>hahahahaha hope someone doesn't get mad at me for joking. :)</p>
<p>Believe me. Reed is one of the most conservative schools if "Liberal" does not mean Populated by tree hugging marijuana smoking longhaired Pagans. Unlike most schools Reed has a core curriculum. Most of its courses are Eurocentric. It's Humanities curriculum is highly treditional, including only Greek, Roman, and modern European Humanities, with fleeting reference to China and no reference to India and Africa. Religious studies includes mostly Christianity and Judaism. Very little eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddism. It seems that Reed still believes that anything except Greek and Roman is "Barbarian"(in old sense of the word) and "Heathen". how can we call Reed "Liberal"?</p>
<p>Thank GOD, for these schools: USNA< USMA< USMMA< USAFA < USCGA</p>
<p>Pretty hard to find a truly conservative school in the mid-Atlantic or North East United States. Even if their student body may be conservative most all the professors in the non-physical sciences tend to be ultra liberal. Some just left of Lenin; although, none, that I know of, as radical as Ward Churchill @ Univ. of Colorado!</p>
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<p>Have you seen Grove City before? 96% suburban white presbyterian Republicans, okay!</p>
<p>Most liberal schools, that's easy, don't know how to order them...</p>
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<li>Eugene Lang College</li>
<li>Bard College</li>
<li>Oberlin College (and whoever said Kenyon & Wooster are as liberal, please zip it, Oberlin has been the most liberal school of the midwest from the beginning through the civil rights movement till today)</li>
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<p>Browns not as liberal as people say. I mean yeah its freakin' liberal but no more than Harvard or Yale are. Its just very laid back and do-your-own-thing and that often gives the impression of leftism.</p>
<p>warren wilson- without a doubt</p>
<p>Georgetown is definetly NOT conservative.
Most Jesuits tend to be into so-called Catholic Social teaching which is very LIBERAL. Have you heard of "Liberation Theology?"</p>
<p>The campus stores cannot sell contraceptives like birth control. Although on your behalf, I am a political moderate and I didn't feel Georgetown was overly conservative.</p>
<p>Berkeley the town is definately more liberal than the university, but the university if very liberal. But, as someone mentioned, the Berkeley College Republicans are a very large club, possibly largest on campus. </p>
<p>And, last year, the wednesday after the election was the most fantastic day on that campus EVER. </p>
<p>My problem with the "liberal" University, such as Berkeley, is that they are the most intolerant people I have ever been around. And it is all in the name of tolerance. If you are a conservative, your opinion matters not, because you're an idiot. if you're from outside the West coast or New England, you're obviously a backward hick. My favorite was when I'd talk to my fellow students about the rest of the country, me being from the midwest. They were all of the opinion...'why can't those parts of the country just get it'. Apparently we're too stupid to understand. Free Speech should only be protected for those sharing their viewpoints, it got very annoying. I was told how horrible a person I was on many many occasions, because I happen to be a conservative. Friends of mine there for grad school, from the USNA, almost got into fights last fall because one had a bush sticker on. Another friend of mine had her bush sticker removed from her car, a peace sign painted on her back window, and a free speech sticker put on her bumper. Too bad it's just soo good of a school. </p>
<p>I have no issues with liberals who'll actually listen to someone and not immediately demonize, this was rarely present at Berkeley. The CalDems for their part were fine though. The problem is, there are about 100 organizations to the left of them who are not.</p>
<p>TAMU is damn conservative from what ive heard. I am getting sick of the right-wing atmosphere at UT-Austin... and it is probably the most liberal university in Texas (dunno about Rice). I dread to go to TAMU...</p>
<p>oh yeah... and TAMU sucks cause its TAMU :P jkjk</p>
<p>no offense intended to anyone!</p>
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<p>Do you attend UT - Austin?</p>
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<p>You better know; if my memory serves me well, Bush was 'booed' off campus.</p>
<p>If you are liberal, why is going to a very liberal school appealing?</p>
<p>I think jedipsohn nailed my question. I don't understand people who want to go to schools where everyone will agree with them.</p>
<p>Some conservative schools that haven't been mentioned (much) here include Notre Dame, Grove City, and Dallas. Boston College gets included on a lot of conservative college lists, but I don't know if that's true or not. Wheaton (IL) is obviously conservative, and Wheaton (MA) is far, far more conservative than just about any other New England LAC I can think of. Mississippi is also considered to be pretty conservative, I believe. I don't think anyone listed Pepperdine, but it should definitely be included.</p>
<p>Some liberal schools that haven't been on too many lists here include Bennington, UVM, Vassar, and Barnard. Earlham should also be included, plus Oberlin. SUNY-Purchase is absolutely a liberal college, probably one of the most liberal in the country, but not enough people know about it for it to be listed much.</p>
<p>I think Trinity (CT) is one of the best balanced schools in the country, and I say that as a local (and prospective transfer) who's spent a lot of time on the campus growing up. I think it's because of how strong the economics and political science departments are. They bring a lot of more right-leaning students in than most LACs have, and the students by and large get along very well. If you want a more measured college, look at Trinity.</p>