Indoctrination of students in class by faculty who promote socialist ideas and other leftist priorities.

Leftist faculty using their class time to preach politics instead of teaching the topic at hand.

Faculty who express in class blatant contempt of conservative ideas.

These are three of the 47 types of leftist abuse and bias compiled by Leadership Institute president Morton Blackwell. Professor Keith Swim engages in all three in his Business Law class at Texas A&M University.

One student in the class decided to audio record the professor's lectures to expose his leftist bias.

Toward the beginning of the course, Professor Swim said:

I hate insurance companies. Sorry if one of your parents work for one because I will trash them all year.

When discussing Article 3 of the Constitution and the U.S. court system, he said:

I am just telling y'all, they're crooks. Never vote for a Republican if you want the right judges in office.

Just a little explosive information can go a long way in politics.

The Anthem, a conservative publication distributed at Texas A&M University, used Federal Election Commission (FEC) data to discover that out of the 21 professors who contributed to presidential candidates in 2008, 18 donated to Barack Obama's campaign. A&M faculty donated over five times more money to Barack Obama than to John McCain.

Shimer College is a small school, but one which should not be overlooked.  Self-described as a "small independent four-year liberal arts college located just minutes from downtown Chicago," Shimer is well-established.  Founded in 1853, the college recently came under new management committed to free market principles and Western values. 

With this new management came a new mission statement, which makes a clear stand for principles of free inquiry and limited government [emphasis added]:

Founded in 1853, Shimer College, The Great Books College of Chicago, is an independent, nonsectarian institution whose mission is liberal education. The word “liberal” in “liberal education” has the same root as the word “liberty.” Liberal education at Shimer is an education for and through liberty. Agreeing with Socrates that the “unexamined life is not worth living,” Shimer finds the highest liberty to consist in the freedom of the mind; that is, in freedom from unexamined assumptions, for example, swings in intellectual fashion, partisan politics, and ideology. Liberty at its peak is thus identical with the pursuit of truth.

"Does [it] bother you at all that one group in America... can basically exert this kind of political pressure and create an environment where, perhaps, free speech is not exercised?"

In an environment like academia, where conservative speech is often questioned and stifled, you might think that Case Western Reserve University's commencement speaker for this spring is questioning the policies of the liberal hegemony on campus in the above quotation.

Unfortunately, Katie Couric, host of CBS Evening News and CWRU's spring commencement speaker, wasn't talking about the hostile climate on campus for conservatives. And it's highly unlikely she will address the issue at commencement, given her vocal disdain for conservative principles.

Not every campus reformer will make their mark by hoisting up bold protest signs and chanting loudly in the streets. Some of the most daring and influential political statements in history were written in relatively small print, and student leaders can be part of that tradition by putting pen to paper for their conservative causes.

Whether it's writing on the CampusReform.org blog page for your college or university, the official newspaper on your campus, or an independent conservative student publication, you can help build a movement at your school upon the foundation of your ideas. (Just a couple good examples this week can be found here and here. Check out what they're doing, find your campus sub-site today, and get cracking.)

And another exceptional student who's really taking a stand with his writing is Dakin Sloss, President of the Objectivists of Stanford and the co-writer of the Stanford Review article The Man-Made Myth, which we've reported on previously.

Tulane University administrators are employing a favorite tactic of campus liberals: dragging out the approval process for a conservative group by using every bureaucratic delay tactic possible.

Daniel Margolis, the leader of a new Bureaucrash group at Tulane University, has been trying to get recognition since last fall, but the administration has ignored his emails and requests for meetings. Bureaucrash, if you do not know, is a network of students who want to spread the ideas of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and free markets.

On September 14, 2009, Daniel sent an email to Tulane's Office of Student Programs with a constitution and membership list. He received no response.

On September 26, 2009, he sent the same email to Jered Bocage, the Asst. Director of Student Programs. Again, Daniel received no response.

Daniel has made several phone calls and visits to the Student Programs Office to no avail, always getting the run-around about how too "busy" they are to see him.

CampusReform.org-trained conservative, Michael Boglovits, announced on Friday, March 5, that he successfully won his Vice Presidential election bid for the Student Government Association at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 

In the beginning of the spring semester, Boglovits announced his candidacy for Vice President of the Student Government Association and attended Campus Reform’s Campus Election Workshop on his campus. 

Boglovits knew that the student body needed a leader who would stand up to the administration on the students’ behalf.  He ran on a platform that vowed to hold the administration accountable to the students and increase the affordability to students in the hard economic times:

Angela Davis was on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List in 1970 as she was the primary suspect when Judge Harold Haley was kidnapped from his courtroom and brutally murdered.

Judge Haley was killed using the firearms Ms. Davis owned that were purchased only two days prior to the crime. Ms. Davis fled authorities for nearly two months before she was taken into custody in New York City. She was charged as an accomplice to conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide. She was acquitted of the charges because her ownership of the weapons could not prove her ties to the murder plot.

Davis' questionable past does not stop there.

As a self-proclaimed communist (limiting freedom of choice and complete government control), she was the vice presidential candidate for the Communist Party's ticket twice in 1980 and 1984.

Obviously, she was unsuccessful in her quest to implement her communist theories and beliefs upon the American people, but one industry welcomed her with open arms:  academia.

As the Campus Services Coordinator for the middle-southern region of the country, I've gotten used to easily finding conservatives on campus. Tulane University was a different story.

This fact became clear just as soon as I walked onto campus. I saw several messages for the Green Club and Planned Parenthood student groups chalked along the major walkway in front of the student center building. Attached to the light poles were signs for "2 Million Clean Energy Jobs Now" with a flier for a climate concert attached to it. You can see photos for yourself below.

I was surprised to learn that there is actually a self-described "underground" conservative group that started out as a support group but wants to get more active. One of the leaders of the group told me that 20% of the students at Tulane are native Louisianans and the rest are from the east and west coasts. That explains a lot!