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Indoctrinate U
2007 · Film · documentary · 87 min
Directed by Evan Coyne Maloney
A hard-hitting yet humorous exposé on the breathtaking abuses of power in higher education, Evan Maloney's "Indoctrinate U" Shows what you won't see in the glossy marketing brochures of American colleges and universities. When unsuspecting students and professors run afoul of the campus thought police, the result would make for a great comic farce–if real careers weren't at stake.
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We discussed this before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171356
FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) has received major funding from groups which primarily support conservative and libertarian causes, including the Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Charles Koch Institute. In 2017, FIRE was listed as one of the sponsors of the conservative campus group Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, according to tax records.
FIRE president Gregory Lukianoff authored "The Coddling of the American Mind" for The Atlantic discussing whether or not trigger warnings are harming college health. Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt later released a book version of The Coddling of the American Mind.
Lukianoff appeared in the film Indoctrinate U, a 2007 American feature-length documentary film written by, directed by and starring Evan Coyne Maloney. A New York Sun profile in 2005 said that Maloney "may very well be America's most promising conservative documentary filmmaker."
And because some folks reminded me: the above information is sourced partly from Wikipedia.
FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) has received major funding from groups which primarily support conservative and libertarian causes, including the Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Charles Koch Institute.
In 2017, FIRE was listed as one of the sponsors of the conservative campus group Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, according to tax records.
FIRE president Gregory Lukianoff authored "The Coddling of the American Mind" for The Atlantic discussing whether or not trigger warnings are harming college health. Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt later released a book version of The Coddling of the American Mind.
Lukianoff appeared in the film Indoctrinate U, a 2007 American feature-length documentary film written by, directed by and starring Evan Coyne Maloney. A New York Sun profile in 2005 said that Maloney "may very well be America's most promising conservative documentary filmmaker."
First I'd like recommend these interviews as an interlude, for your robotics club especially the one with Larry Rosenstock from High Tech High: http://www.mobilelearninginstitute.org/21stcenturyeducation/
This has an angry little trailer, but seems to more about Amerian campus politics than educational reform: http://indoctrinate-u.com/intro/
"We are the people we've been waiting for" has a focus on education reform in Great Britain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRi8_fXz1D8 and http://youtube.com/WeAreThePeopleMovie
Plus there's a two or three kickstarter projects on documentaries in education. Hope this helps!
I will dig around and try to find a few more. The one's Jon Bischke posted sound good as well. Take care!
I wish people included intellectual diversity in their quest for universal diversity on college campuses. There is a good movie about this: http://indoctrinate-u.com
It's from the guy behind Brain Terminal, whose videos are hilarious: http://brain-terminal.com/posts/category/bt-video/
Thank god engineering departments exist. If they didn't, I'd question the need for most people to go to college. $200K to earn $25K/yr at a non-profit - doing work you could have done in high school.
I went to a tour of Stanford recently. The tour guide mentioned the increases in tuition. I asked what they went to. He didn't know. I know most research labs are funded by a combination of government grants and undergrad tuition. What about the rest?