Conservative speakers, already a rarity on college campuses in recent years, may be even more of an anomaly this spring as the nation’s universities hold commencement ceremonies featuring an array of educators, entertainers and politicians drawn from the left — and essentially devoid of anyone from the right.
Betsy DeVos spoke in May 2018 at Ave Maria University, a small Catholic school in Florida, while Ohio State and Rutgers invited former President Obama rather than then-President Trump in 2019.
“The faculty and administration of higher education clearly possess a heavily liberal bias, but the trend away from conservative commencement speakers is probably more the result of attempts to avoid disruptions during this important event for students and parents rather than from ideological bias,” Mr. Heineman said.
Attorney Leonard Leo, a co-chairman of the conservative Federalist Society and former judicial advisor to President Trump, is speaking on May 13 at Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts school in Kansas. According to an Oct. 27 poll from the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, 57% of 18-to-29-year-olds said they preferred a Democratic Party candidate heading into the last midterm elections. By comparison, just 31% wanted a Republican and 12% were undecided.
“Liberal students and an often biased faculty have made conservative voices impossible at many colleges today,” said Ms. Collette, a member of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Project 21, a network of Black conservatives.Dartmouth will highlight Phil Lord and Chris Miller, two friends from the class of 1997 who have since worked together as a Hollywood writing-directing team on films ranging from “The Lego Movie” to the 2012 adaptation of television’s “21 Jump Street.
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