The College Fix

David French writes for NRO about the specific ways the liberal secularism on our nation’s college campuses wears away at students’ values:

1.  Students study much less than they used to. In 1961, the average student studied 24 hours per week. Now, it’s just 14.

2.  Students study less than they party. They spend more than three times as much time socializing and partying than they spend in class and studying combined.

3. When they party, many do so through decadent and dangerous binge drinking. Up to 44 percent of all college students binge drink…

4. When students are in class, they’re exposed to very little intellectual diversity. Conservatives are decided minorities in every discipline…

5. If you’re Evangelical, the odds are good your professor won’t like you. An Institute for Jewish and Community Research survey of 1,200 college professors found that 53 percent expressed “unfavorable” feelings towards Evangelicals.

6. Unsurprisingly, given the scant studying, hard partying, ideological monoculture, students often learn little in college. “After two years in college, 45 percent of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36 percent showed little change.”

7. They are, however, learning to be more liberal – especially on social issues — and less engaged in church. The number of students who “never” attend church increases from 20.2 percent to 37.5 percent from their freshman to junior year, while the number who “fequently” attend drops from 43.7 percent to 25.4 percent. At the same time, students increasingly self-identify as liberal and pro-choice…

Read the full article at National Review.

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