Young people who value liberty are faced with a major life dilemma when it comes to selecting a good college. Thanks to the left’s long march through academic institutions over the last several decades, campuses are often unfriendly — if not downright
Hello! And thank you for this informative post. I would also like to add Montana State University as one to avoid. My son was set on going, but when I asked if my son would be roomed with another biological male during Orientation, they couldn't even bring themselves to type "biological male" in our multiple exchanges; they only would refer to "gender." "Students will be roomed by 'gender.'" I specifically stated that "gender" means nothing these days and that I wanted confirmation that my biologically male son would be roomed with another biological male, and they would only say "roomed by gender" and that if my son had an issue with his roommate then he would deal with it at Orientation. Montana State is Woke AF. I elevated the issue, and my reply was that by law they can only ask students about gender, but not their actual sex (xx, xy). ???
On the flip side, although CAL is in the Bay Area and is known for its "progressiveness," I would send my son there over Montana State (MSU) any day of the week. UC Berkeley is the epitome of Woke, but I would argue that maybe if you "go into the belly of the beast," you will find that others before have fought to have some sanity there, whereas MSU is fighting so hard to be the most Woke college of Montana that they cannot see the forest through the trees and are only catering to the Woke Mob. I see MSU as naive and fighting hard to be Woke, and I don't think parents have realized that yet. But with UC Berkeley, you know what you are getting into, and there will be a path already laid for the independents/conservatives by those that came before them... But I am biased as I went to UC Berkeley ;)
Thanks for that insight! I always think of Montana as cowboy country, as unwoke as can be, but I guess that's not the case at Montana State. Good to know.
Maybe it's a different culture once enrolled and on campus than the one the administration is throwing out there... but I am not willing to send my son across a few states and a pretty high out-of-state tuition for a low ranked college to figure it out. It's depressing... University of Utah was the same btw. Lots of rainbow crap and DEI garbage. The list of decent colleges grows thin.
Hello! And thank you for this informative post. I would also like to add Montana State University as one to avoid. My son was set on going, but when I asked if my son would be roomed with another biological male during Orientation, they couldn't even bring themselves to type "biological male" in our multiple exchanges; they only would refer to "gender." "Students will be roomed by 'gender.'" I specifically stated that "gender" means nothing these days and that I wanted confirmation that my biologically male son would be roomed with another biological male, and they would only say "roomed by gender" and that if my son had an issue with his roommate then he would deal with it at Orientation. Montana State is Woke AF. I elevated the issue, and my reply was that by law they can only ask students about gender, but not their actual sex (xx, xy). ???
On the flip side, although CAL is in the Bay Area and is known for its "progressiveness," I would send my son there over Montana State (MSU) any day of the week. UC Berkeley is the epitome of Woke, but I would argue that maybe if you "go into the belly of the beast," you will find that others before have fought to have some sanity there, whereas MSU is fighting so hard to be the most Woke college of Montana that they cannot see the forest through the trees and are only catering to the Woke Mob. I see MSU as naive and fighting hard to be Woke, and I don't think parents have realized that yet. But with UC Berkeley, you know what you are getting into, and there will be a path already laid for the independents/conservatives by those that came before them... But I am biased as I went to UC Berkeley ;)
Thanks for that insight! I always think of Montana as cowboy country, as unwoke as can be, but I guess that's not the case at Montana State. Good to know.
Maybe it's a different culture once enrolled and on campus than the one the administration is throwing out there... but I am not willing to send my son across a few states and a pretty high out-of-state tuition for a low ranked college to figure it out. It's depressing... University of Utah was the same btw. Lots of rainbow crap and DEI garbage. The list of decent colleges grows thin.