Young Conservatives of Texas bringing back the “professor watch list”
The YCT at my alma mater, UT-Austin, is bringing back a new and improved “professor watch list” this year. The idea was originally the brainchild of YCT-UT chairman Austin Kinghorn, and I chronicled this project in my book The Conservative Revolution.
Here is an excerpt of the letter that the current YCT Director of Academic Freedom sent to The Daily Texan, the school newspaper.
Too many professors on this campus use the classroom as a tool of indoctrination. Students pay tuition to be educated, not indoctrinated. They have the right to demand impartial classroom environments, where they may openly engage in debates that deliberate all viewpoints of controversial issues.
Students should feel free to respectfully challenge professors and other students without fear of chastisement. All professors should strive for intellectual honesty in their classrooms by presenting objective, unprejudiced information and allowing students to choose a position on their own terms.
Education should always be the main goal of instructors. University classrooms are not the place for activists to convert and recruit people for an ideological cause.