Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation

by Jim Nelson Black

Book Overview

It's happening in colleges all across the country. Instead of being educational institutions designed to encourage the free discussion of ideas, universities have become prisons of propaganda,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785260668
• ISBN13: 9780785260660
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Book: Traditional Americans will love it, leftists will hate it.

This book is the absolute truth. Also, if anything, the book pulls some punches. This reviewer is a former Army officer. I received my degree in the mid-80s and decided to change careers in the mid-2000s. I was shocked at how different the colleges had become. First, many of the students are openly fat or obese. That is a subject for another book. Second, I was amazed at how absolutely leftist the professors had become. Yes, the professors were liberal back in the '80s. However, they were just liberal, at odds with the Reagan years, and were generally glad when the Soviet Union went away. This reviewer went to Ferris State University. In the Teachers Colleges, which teach little about actual teaching, there was a very leftist professor who actually was advocating the establishment of state schools for children. These state schools would take the children from the parents at the age of five and be totally responsible for raising them. And few of the students actually saw this as wrong. This reviewer actually started challenging the professor. The professor finally told me to leave the class. Ferris State University refused to back up my arguments against the professor. I told the administrators at Ferris that Fox News would like the story. They gave me a full refund and we parted ways. The level of sedition preached at colleges is mind-boggling. Traditional families are scorned. Homosexuals are held up as paragons of virtue. The 1950s (actually a quite progressive era in America blessed with low unemployment) are presented to the class as an equivalent to living under the Taliban. Men worked, women stayed at home, and children enjoyed two stable parents. "Horrors!" the teaching professors will exclaim. How dare this culture impose a traditional construct upon the families? The professors will get openly mad at a student if you show the Juvenal crime rate, teen suicide rate, and mental illness rates in the 1950s were a fraction of modern America. The professor says that old America was evil, thus it must be evil. Don't confuse the situation with the facts. (You have to wonder about professors at that point. Professors say they care about kids. Traditional families are good for kids. The professors don't like traditional families, screw the kids.) Well the end results are the state teachers colleges are turning out, basically, traitors. If you don't believe me then I give the example of Jay Bennish, the infamous teacher from Colorado. Mr. Bennish was recorded for over 20 minutes on an anti-American tirade. Prior to 1970, Mr. Bennish would have been terminated. Post 2000, Mr. Bennish is called a hero. Indeed, Mr. Bennish actually gave a threat to a student. Mr. Bennish used the threat of violence to back up his leftist thinking. The only thing I didn't like about this book is the fact is it's preaching to the choir. We traditional Americans know what is wrong with the colleges. That's a fact. The

it is about time

My response when I bought this book was "it is about time someone wrote this book!" It documents how our colleges are corrupting the minds and morals of the next generation. Having taught in several American colleges and Universities for over 35 years, I have seen this first hand. I love the university and intellectual life, but have seen intolerance in academia grow to the point that its faculty are now often in a different world than the rest of America. An example is the intolerance against Republicans. I do not agree with many Republican ideas (and am generally an independent, and we are usually ignored, so I personally do not have a problem here), but there is something wrong when over 90 percent of all faculty in most departments are Democrats, socialists, or communists (Marxists or conflict theorists). This concern is discussed in detail in this book. As I am on the science faculty, one area that does strike close to home is the intolerance toward those who doubt Darwin. For example, on page 230 Black discusses intolerance at Harvard (in contrast I have several good Darwin doubter friends who earned their Ph.D. in science at Harvard). Black claimed that "critical discussion of Darwin is taboo" at Harvard (this is what my friends also claimed) and that the "modern university has no religion but Darwinism... the most important question for any society to ask is the one that is [now] forbidden" Page 231. How true. Those who disagree are the ones who should be reading this book.

These Are the Facts

The reviewers who are attacking the author have obviously not read the book. There is no way to refute the data here. These are facts about what is happening at schools around the country. There are interviews with high ranking professors at very prestigious schools. They tell you, in their own words, what is happening at their schools. The author's opinion is based on his investigation. This is an impressive, thought-provoking and very well-organized book that will shed light on exactly what is going on in today's universities. Jim Nelson Black really has done his research.

Sad, but true.

This book is mandatory reading, not only for parents of those who may be headed for college, but for current students and their parents as well, ... that is, if the safety and well-being of their children, as well as the future of this country is of any concern to them. The stark reality of the transformation of our educational institutions from halls of learning into seedy bastions of perverse indoctrination is portrayed all too clearly by Jim Nelson Black, ... and its frightening. The author did well to draw not only upon academics and other credentialed observers for input, but also from among the more keenly aware students. It is very disturbing to learn that the once cherished goal of sending Johnny or Jane to a local college for higher education has now become a potentially dangerous proposition. Unfortunately, today, Johnny and Jane may indeed graduate from what now seems like Sodom University or Gommorah Tech. ... with a degree, but they may also come away with more than they wanted, and it has nothing to due with knowledge. The moral decay and perversion of principles on today's campuses is not taking place in a vacuum. While it may be going on behind the backs of many parents, those in positions of influence and authority are, or should be aware of the damage that is taking place, ... but then again, tenure has a way of accelerating the onset of deafness, dumbness, and blindness. Those who do try to spend their college years in earnest pursuit of knowledge often find themselves ostracized or confronted with either academic malaise or coming under the tutelage of some of the most extreme of the anti-authority and anti-establishment anarchists whose purpose is not to teach, ... but to recruit and indoctrinate. The rest of us should not dismiss what is going on as a phenomenon that is restricted to the campus and its local environs, ... it has more far-reaching effects than some may be willing to admit. After all, these would-be graduates may receive a degree purporting some sort of academic achievement, and that is suspect in and of itself, ... but what is not inscribed on that faux sheepskin is the degree to which any given student has been exposed to radical counter-cultural philosophy and who-knows-what else, so that the Johnny and Jane that Mom and Dad sent off to college emerge four years later as the minions of the septic perversion that they have been steeped in. This book, along with Ben Shapiro's "Brainwashed:How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth" are must reads, not only for parents and students, but for the rest of us as well, ... after all, the students of today will supposedly be the leaders of tomorrow, ... and right now, that is not exactly something to look forward to.

Accurate portrayal of today's universities

As a recent college grad myself, I can vouch for the validity of this book. Some reviewers may try to convince you this is Christian propoganda, but that simply isn't the case. The fact is that professors today are not trying to be fair and balanced. They are trying to make students agree with their perspective, and the vast majority of that time, that perspective is left-leaning. Far left-leaning. The scary part is, most students are naive enough to take everything these professors say as fact and don't even realize they're being brainwashed. Jim Nelson Black really gets into the details of this situation with examples from the best of America's university and interviews with very respected professors. You will be blown away by the truth. Let's hope this book will wake up America.