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Robert McColley: “What we've seen, and this has been statistically proved over…”

Featuring: Robert McColley, Republican | Ohio State Senate, District 1

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Senate Declares Higher Education Reform as Senate Bill 1

Published | Video Starts at 14:46

And so each of these universities typically have standards in place that really gives much of the faculty an outsized role in approving curriculum and approving even just the general operation of the university. And as a result, What we've seen, and this has been statistically proved over self-reported data, is that a sharp leftward turn and faculty was never center of the political spectrum, certainly not right on the political spectrum, but an even sharper leftward turn of faculty across the country. And what we're seeing is that that sharp leftward turn is resulting in political ideological capture in many ways of the university. (14:46–15:09)

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