President Daniels = academic censor?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Purdue University
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<p>Former</a> Governor, Now Purdue President, Wanted Howard Zinn Banned in Schools - Abby Ohlheiser - The Atlantic Wire</p>

<p>"Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who more or less appointed the Board of Trustees that ultimately decided to hire him on as the President of Purdue University in January, is facing a new round of scrutiny for some heavy-handed moves he underwent as governor to remove ideas he didn't like from school classrooms. According to a series of documents obtained by an Associated Press Freedom of Information Act request, Daniels also tried to use his position as governor to punish his enemies, including a professor at a local university. At the center of the story, however, is Daniels' special hatred for historian Howard Zinn."</p>

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<p>Anyone at Purdue care to comment? Any prospective students affected by this news?</p>

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<p>Lol… I don’t think anyone know much about Daniels just yet (beside that fact that he’s a conservative). He just started.</p>

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<p>Well, now you know something…</p>

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<p>I didn’t click on the link but did you hear anything about cutting professors salary to freeze tuition?</p>

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<p>Another view from a past University President</p>

<p>[Benno</a> Schmidt: Mitch Daniels’s Gift to Academic Freedom - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7ooCTPlRZmUAi6APxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTBybnZlZnRlBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=132nnfb9n/EXP=1375321218/**http%3A//online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324809004578637713582677352.html]Benno”>http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7ooCTPlRZmUAi6APxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTBybnZlZnRlBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=132nnfb9n/EXP=1375321218/**http%3A//online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324809004578637713582677352.html)</p>

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<p>I can’t take an opinion piece seriously that makes such sweeping generalizations as “Politicians can’t dictate course syllabi or reading lists in higher education. But nor should faculty be allowed to engage in indoctrination and professional irresponsibility without being held to account. And yet, over the past 50 years, that is essentially what has happened. The greatest threat to academic freedom today is not from outside the academy, but from within. Political correctness and “speech codes” that stifle debate are common on America’s campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind” without providing a single tidbit of substantiation. Ridiculous.</p>

<p>(Oh, and your link is broken–the headline is easily googlable, fortunately)</p>

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<p>(Benno Schmidt, the author of that opinion piece, is also the former head of this delightful for-profit company: [url=<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Schools]EdisonLearning[/url”>Edison School District - Wikipedia]EdisonLearning[/url</a>]</p>

<p>Here’s a few choice tidbits about that:</p>

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