Heated exchange cited as proof law is needed
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~61~1979695,00.html#A nose-to-nose confrontation between a student and a professor during heated testimony in a wild legislative committee hearing Wednesday on the controversial Students Bill of Rights is the very reason a law is needed to protect students from abuse and proselytizing by their professors, Republican lawmakers said.
The bill, by Rep. Shawn Mitchell R-Broomfield, advanced to the full House after a 6-5 party-line vote in the House Education Committee.
The bill is aimed at protecting conservative students at state colleges from what they claim is harassment and discrimination by left-leaning professors.
It also prohibits faculty from persistently introducing controversial topics unrelated to course content and formalizes a grievance procedure for students - a process college administrators say already exists.(more at link)
This happened a little over a week ago in Colorado. State governments are increasingly messing around with higher education. jchild has a thread about what happened at USM in the lounge. (I wish she would post her thread in GD as well.)
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