Obama Administration Looking for More Control of Higher Ed

As if there wasn’t quite enough of government’s big nose in the middle of education already, the U.S. Department of Education is trying to put another layer on top of the nation’s colleges and universities – even private ones.   The plan is scheduled to go into effect in November and would require “authorization” of the institutions by federal and state government.  

As has become far too habitual with the Obama Administration, the higher education power grab is being done by agency fiat under “rule making authority.”  The plan has never had specific authorization by a vote of Congress.  They just do it. 

Two former Colorado U.S. Senators, Bill Armstrong and Hank Brown, blew the whistle on the plan in today’s Denver Post.  Armstrong is currently the President of Colorado Christian University, and Brown is the former President of the University of Colorado. 

With the benefit of their insight as top administrators of universities as well as politicians, Armstrong and Brown were quick to analyze the freedom infringing ramifications of the “authorization” plan by the Obama Administration.  “As a practical matter, the department's power grab carries with it an implicit invitation for various pressure groups to seek legal mandates requiring colleges and universities to implement their pet theories about curriculum, degree requirements, faculty qualifications, teaching methods, textbooks, evolution, phonics, ROTC, climate change, family policy, abortion, race, sexual orientation, economic theory, etc.” they wrote. 

Political big government radicals have long recognized that government control of education was critical to their strategy.  Karl Marx envisioned “free education for all children in public schools” controlled by the government.  Parental authority and freedom had to be sacrificed for the “greater good” of the society according to Marx.  “The bourgeois claptrap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child … [is] disgusting,” he wrote in his Communist Manifesto. 

William Z. Foster the founder of the Communist Party USA wrote in his book Toward Soviet America about the specific measures that would “further the cultural revolution” (read: transform) in the United States of America:

“[S]tudies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society. Present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy.”

Sound familiar?  You have been warned.  Read Armstrong’s and Brown’s entire op-ed here.  They suggest you contact your congressman and senator immediately.  Good idea!