College-bound students are increasingly rejecting schools in states whose politics differ from their own, with many citing “cancel culture” and abortion as key issues, recent polls show.
About 72% of college students said abortion laws in their school’s state influenced their decision to keep attending, according to a survey last week from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, a nonprofit that provides education grants. And 60% of adults aged 18-59 who do not have a college degree said state abortion laws would impact their decision to attend a particular school.
“When I speak to teens or teach my college classes, they tell me they don’t want to go to school or live on the West Coast. They see it as the land of human waste and homeless encampments,” said Alex MacFarland, an instructor at Charis Bible College, an unaccredited evangelical school in Alexandria, Virginia.
“Call me skeptical,” said Michael Warder, a California-based nonprofit consultant and former vice chancellor of Pepperdine University. “Quality of the college and cost after any financial aid are far more important drivers in the decision students and their families make about where to attend college.”
Walter Block, an economist who teaches at Loyola University New Orleans in deep-red Louisiana, said the findings reinforce the wisdom of letting students mingle with like-minded people. In a survey of 783 Florida high school students and 364 undergraduates in the state’s public universities, Intelligent.com found that 91% of prospective and 78% of current college students disagreed with Mr. DeSantis’ education policies. And 1 in 8 graduating high school seniors said they won’t attend a state college in the fall because of that.
The political “self-segregation” of students who want to avoid other viewpoints doesn’t help this situation, said Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor in the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania.
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