Why Doesn't Obama Take Over Universities?

Why isn't President Obama reining in our colleges and firing presidents like he did at General Motors? Why isn't Congress demanding hearings? Why isn't Nancy Pelosi demanding accountability?

Consider the salaries of those running the universities, particularly those accepting the most government funding. 59 public-university presidents received half-million dollar salaries last year. At Barack Obama's alma mater, Columbia University, at New York University and at Northwestern, the presidents all raked in about a million and a half dollars last year. Yet, after taking tens of thousands of dollars a year from debt-ridden students and their parents, on top of boatloads of government money, these colleges are screaming that they are broke.

Alas, here's the dirty little secret: Because colleges are busy advancing the leftwing agenda. Colleges are essentially recruiting grounds for Democratic Party voters and activists. A 2003 survey by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture found these ratios of Democratic to Republican professors: Swarthmore: 21 to one. Bowdoin College: 23 to one. Wellesley College: 23 to one. Brown University: 30 to one.

I'll ask again. Why doesn't our government check up on the taxpayers' money that goes to universities?

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