Right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. You know, ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we would call a higher learning, colleges, universities, conservatives and traditionalists have been freaked out but just were dangerous ideas were being shared their. I mean, really the whole dangerous ideas coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. This brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard as a governor there, ron desantis calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that would require public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty, and staff about the beliefs and few points to support intellectual diversity. Not only that, he is gone on to suggest that budget cuts could take place if schools are found to be, quote, indoctrin
Right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. You know, ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we would call a higher learning, colleges, universities, conservatives and traditionalists have been freaked out but just were dangerous ideas were being shared their. I mean, really the whole dangerous ideas coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. This brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard as a governor there, ron desantis calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that would require public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty, and staff about the beliefs and few points to support intellectual diversity. Not only that, he is gone on to suggest that budget cuts could take place if schools are found to be, quote, indoctrin
him. a lot of smart hiring managers won t look at education anymore just because of how important the skills are and the personable communication skills are more important than the actual degree that you can get. of course, plenty of american kids are prepping for college. some of the country s most competitive schools are seeing a record number of applicants. we re talking about smaller campuses and the four year for profit colleges are seeing the biggest decline. dana: thank you, mark. i could listen all day. is he really concerned we may not have fair and free elections? the president has been consistent on this issue and the issue at hand. are you concerned that without the voting rights bills the election results won t be legitimate? i m absolutely concerned about that. bill: there you have democrats doubling down at times on the president s suggestion that mid-terms may
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keep power in your hands with a minority. that s the focus of the republican party at this moment. it s a congressman who represented florida from 2014 to 2017. it s a professor of university at chaplain ville, with the book lower and, the troubling rise of for profit colleges in the new economy. they both join me now. tracey you ve written and thought a lot about the politics of education, particularly higher education and i m just curious when parents are telling me they re worried i heard a real complaint that he is heard from parents which is this idea that this is what happens that we have the precious little kids and we bring them up on our values and they go to college and come back without them. i don t doubt that that is a real concern. but a real concern that has been directed at desantis does not make it a legitimate concern. one grounded in reality.