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 Professors warn academic intolerance for dissenting views is reaching new highs
 

Donald Trump ‘has made [conservatism] a bad word’

Viewpoint diversity in the academy is alarmingly low, and the next generation of academics is likely to be even less tolerant of opposing views, professors from various institutions told a New York University audience Tuesday night.

This is an historical anomaly, according to April Kelly-Woessner, a political science professor at Elizabethtown College: The more educated a person is, the more tolerant of other opinions that person is likely to be.

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Perhaps the only way to counteract the left's dominance in education would be to open several brand-new colleges, with administrators chosen for their conservative ideologies, along with the professors and teachers of the same sentiments (If any can be found!)...