To elaborate a bit, I would also accept suggestions of Catholic colleges, colleges with a traditional, Protestant background, as well as any secular colleges (as long as these are not hostile to Catholic beliefs).
Then Catholic university of America would be perfect. Itâs the only university in the US that strictly conforms to Catholic doctrine as per a Papal Bulla. Itâs definitely conservative.
1NJParentâŠagreedâŠhowever many center to right feel the leftist agenda is being shoved down their throat as well as the fact that other views are not tolerated by them. It isnât that center to right are not ok with others but the other way around. Iâm not talking about extreme right who may want to live in their own bubble, just those who arenât progressive left.
It seems to me that the tone of some of these posts are adversarial.
If a poster wants to focus more on pushing their own worldview than on answering the original question, they should stop.
Thank you.
-spruce123
@spruce123 - Thank you for rejoining the conversation. I posted earlier asking you the following:
Is attending a school with a conservative leaning your goal? Itâs not clear if you area potential college applicant. Your other current threads including âQuestions on Liberal Arts Education,â and âSocratic method vs. lecture methodâ suggest that you are exploring a lot of different possibilities? Can you clarify what youâre really trying to figure out? Respondents could provide more focused and relevant information.
Would you be willing to answer? I think it would help to keep this thread on track - otherwise perhaps it should be closed?
Different Christian denominations (of which Catholic and CJCLDS are just two of many present in the US which have associated colleges) do have different religious doctrines, so that a very religious college may not be a good fit for someone of a different denomination, even if both are Christian. (But some conservative Christian colleges may be non-denominational, or non-denominational within Protestant Christianity.)
Most of the âconservative speakersâ who get that kind of attention tend to be alt-right racists (sometimes deliberately inflammatory) like Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos. Unfortunately, the noisiness and prominence of the alt-right makes it appear to many like conservatism has allowed itself to be taken over by racism, which is probably the goal of the alt-right.
But it does not seem like a conservative speaker arguing for fiscal conservatism like balanced government budgets would attract that kind of attention.
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Most people want to go to a college, where they will encounter a lot of people who share their world view and this goes in both directions. You might not find a lot of southern conservatives wanting to go to Brown and you donât find a lot of liberals in the NE wanting to go to school in Alabama.
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What are your stats? Do you need financial aid or are your parents full pay? Coming up with a list of schools that are academic and/or financial reaches wonât help you much. If you give us a little info. we may be able to offer viable suggestions.
Hello austinmshauri,
I would prefer to keep that information private. I know that you want to help me, and I am grateful for this.
I can see the colleges that the previous posters have suggested, research them, and do a process of elimination afterwards.
Thank you,
spruce123
Princeton McCormack Professor of Poltical Science in response to two politically conservative speakers being banned or shouted down:
â Middlebury yields to the mobâs threats of violence. No questioning of campus dogmas permitted. Why keep the place open? âCollege Cancels Conservative Philosopherâs Lecture on Totalitarianismâ:
One female professor was attacked and injured by students.
So whatâs worse. The speakers or liberal students attacking a fellow citizen physically.
There a problem of intolerance on many campuses.
Ben Shapiro is certainly not racist. The Berkeley speech was a terrible demonstration of free speech protections.
Erik Prince. Perhaps a greedy person (legal). Definitely a mercenary (legal) . Definitely rich (legal). Never heard of him being a racist. Speech cancelled recently too.
Iâm not for or against any of these people. I donât know anything about them.
However, if they are not promoting active violence on campus, genocide or pro apartheid or something truly illegal.
I say it is very important to protect their right of lawful assembly and free speech. Especially on a college campus.
If it turns the other way and the future mob is stopping currently popular liberal views - the precedents are being set now.
College kids should definitely have the ability to protest, lawfully and non physically. But the banning and speech canceling is not cool.
He does dip into bigotry, though, even if technically not race-based:
https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/nov/05/ben-shapiro/shapiro-says-majority-muslims-are-radicals/
https://forward.com/opinion/388621/why-doesnt-the-new-york-times-mention-ben-shapiros-islamophobia/
You are going to find the sciences and engineering to be less problematic as there are less humanity classes that tend to be more liberal instruction in general. For the most part your big state universities will be a mixed bag with notable exceptions that are well known.
The post about the alt right being racists is why conservative leaning students donât exactly want to end up in a sjw school. Free speech is not exactly truly alive on many campuses. For that matter many people including adults tend to be hush hush around people talking liberal politics. That is the climate today and its not just limited to university.
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Campus militancy canât be viewed in isolation. Itâs a reflection of the ever-growing political divisiveness and polarization in our society at large. Voices at both extremes of the political spectrum have always been the loudest, but they werenât able to spread as fast and as wide, until now, with the arrival of social media and other enabling technologies. We need to find our way back to more civil political discourse in society as campuses are just microcosms of our society.
The service academies tend to be at least moderately conservative. If you want massive cuts in defense spending, you are unlikely to want a career in the military. Take a look at this study, and youâll see which colleges are more balanced.
https://econjwatch.org/File+download/944/LangbertQuainKleinSept2016.pdf?mimetype=pdf
Define conservative. Define liberal. Then we can more precisely answer your question.
For example, are you looking for a school that does not sell condoms in the bookstore and does not offer oral contraceptives in the university health service? Where married gay couples are prohibited from living in campus housing for married students? Where most students are against abortion? Where race and ethnicity are not considered in admissions decisions?
What exactly do you not want professors to teach? Instead of saying âliberal flavor,â be specific about what you do not want to hear in the classroom.
One thing you might want to consider (and that youâll learn in college) is that there is not necessarily one âtruthâ in subjects like political science, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and even history to some extent. Studying humanities and social sciences is not a process of learning âfactsâ that a professor tells you.
Youâll find more facts in sciences and mathematics.
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Since I presume the OP is Catholic, why not Villanova or the University of Notre Dame? Those are top 50 schools, but still with a clear Catholic identity unlike Georgetown, which is effectively a secular school at this point.
With no info from OP, I donât see how we can offer more info than a Google search would give. We barely know what conservative means to him or her. Wonât give stats, etc. Posters are shooting in the dark.
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I agree. Itâs fine that the OP does not want to overshare, but without further details, there is nothing more to really say. Additionally, the thread is getting to circular and debate-y. Closing.