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

Jim Nelson Black (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 22, 2004

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, indoctrinating students with politically correct (and often morally repugnant) ideas about American life and culture. This book exposes the liberal bias in today's universities, providing hard evidence, in clear and unimpeachable terms, that shows how today's colleges are covertly and overtly proselytizing with leftist slants on sexuality, politics, and lifestyles. By naming names and providing specific and credible insights from faculty members, administrators, professional observers, and analysts who have witnessed and chronicled the intellectual and ethical collapse taking place within the academy, this book offers a broad overview of the issues, the history of the problems, analysis from a broad range of academics and professionals, and also observations of the university students themselves, in their own words, from schools all across the nation.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (September 22, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785260668
• ISBN-13: 978-0785260660
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #742,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it is about time, January 17, 2005

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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.

47 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book hits the mark., October 20, 2004

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This review is from: Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation (Hardcover)

When done, the reader of this book needs to visit the Web site "The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education," at <http://www.thefire.org.> This org defends students who have actually gone against the political correctness that is discussed.

The reader may also want to visit Speech Codes Web site at <http://www.speechcodes.org> that tracks the words students are not allowed to use on campus. The org is not talking about "The seven words one can't say on television." It's talking about words like "girlfriend" and "boyfriend," speechcodes.org telling you the universities these restrictions belong to.

Also, one doesn't need this book to tell them that professors have been pushing left-wing ideology as bullies in the classroom, discouraging real debate. There have been too many real complaints from students in the news, ones who felt their free speech was spit on by radical professors; professors who would otherwise be fired in a public school environment for trespassing on student rights.

Finally, if you really want an education on what's going on at some American universities that will raise the hair on the back of your head, visit Academic Bias on the Web at <http://www.academicbias.com>. Click and download the movie titled "Brainwashing 101." You will see real-live college administrators on film and at work discouraging free speech, even calling the campus police for the smallest of infractions that suggest the existence of free thought other than what the university has pre-approved.

While you might see some reviews of this book displaying a distrust for people of religion, many of today's universities had their literal foundations built on early Christian values in America but now taken over by strange and sick ideologies. One doesn't have to look far to find them, such as Professor Singer of Princeton who advocates humans have sex with non-humans (animals) his saying in an interview, "If your dog can tell you when he wants to go out, he can tell you other things, too."

What this has to do with an education is beyond me; Princeton putting the professor in the "Human Ethics Department" at a time when over 40,000,000 Americans have an STD, according to the CDC. Now the CDC has released a new warning that 50% of today's teenagers will have an STD by age 25-years old, certainly the CDC attributing the spread of the diseases to the lack of discipline at universities they will be attending.

The fact these students can no longer give blood for the general public is certain to come back and bite us all in a national emergency; something else universities are probably not mentioning in the name of political correctness, a subject this book could easily add as an addendum titled "Consequences."

I wonder if one were to talk about The Fourth Estate on campus to university students today, would they think it's a new bar down the street, this book documenting American History is hard to find in a world that doesn't want to teach, but to preach?

Give this book a good read, then go to the above Web sites to see the real world you've just read about.

Freedom is knowledge. The absence of freedom is bondage, this one spelled with a silent P as in Ph.D.

25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sad, but true., November 12, 2004

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This review is from: Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation (Hardcover)

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.