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University or Indoctrination Station? You Decide.

New documentary exposes universities' true colors.


by Shawn Cohen

College professors love to tout their tolerant attitude toward all belief systems. Filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney has dispelled this façade of tolerance in his recent documentary Indoctrinate U, which hit the film scene earlier this year. Indoctrinate U is 89 minutes of truth that university officials would rather hush up and completely ignore than talk about openly. Coyne Maloney and his team wanted to shatter the illusion of tolerance and free speech that universities have hidden behind for decades.

Students Harassed and Universities' Cover Up

Part of the documentary comprises interviews Coyne Maloney gathered from students across America who have been sequestered, or even arrested in some cases, because of the views they hold that run contrary to that of the militantly liberal university administration. Intertwined with these interviews is the on-camera bumbling of college staff who refuse to speak with the Indoctrinate U team about the mistreatment of the students who have been interviewed.

Are Universities Tolerant? Think Again.

One debacle Coyne Maloney decided to include in the documentary involved a student who hung a flyer announcing that a conservative black intellectual was going to speak at a student-led campus meeting. University officials ordered the student to remove the flyer from all public areas on campus because the title of the lecture may have been offensive to some of the students. The young man refused, citing his freedom as a student in good standing to hang a flyer just like all other students, and the university quickly escalated the situation by having the student charged for a crime that university officials couldn’t even define. The student eventually won the case after he refused to settle for multiple monetary arrangements offered to him by the university.

Another student interviewed on Indoctrinate U is a Kuwaiti national studying in the US. He was told by a faculty member that he should seek psychiatric help for writing a pro-American essay in an American Studies class. On camera, the student expresses his gratitude to the US for freeing his country from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army but this view was apparently considered neurotic by the student's professor. Not surprisingly, display of the American flag at many schools has been banned because of the school's stance on the war in Iraq, according to Coyne Maloney's investigation.

"Rarely ever does a professor say anything positive about what America has done," one student from Duke University noted on Indoctrinate U. Yet according to interviews on the documentary, students make it clear that professors routinely foment their views on a variety of issues, regardless of how irrelevant they are to the subject matter of the class. Another student facetiously said that "I never knew that carbon chains had anything to do with politics, but apparently they do."

In a survey among faculty in the humanities and social sciences, one professor interviewed on Indoctrinate U found that seven out of eight professors were registered Democrats. In some departments, the ratio was thirty to one. His conclusion? "Practically all the professors are leftist," he said on the documentary.

Distance Learning Is a Viable Alternative

Coyne Maloney sees value in the alternative ways people are earning bachelor's degrees. "The economics of higher education make getting a degree unwieldy for a lot people," he noted. As an example, he said that people want their money to pay for their actual education, "not for the campus gender equity center." Since traditional public universities basically provide the student with little more than a credential, "people are willing to look for that credential to be provided by [education alternatives] at a much lower cost," he said.

A Degree's True Value

Although Coyne Maloney has worked as a software developer since he graduated from college, he didn't choose computer science as a major, deciding on a business degree instead. "I learned how to write software in my early teens when I should have been socializing," he said jokingly. "There was nothing in my degree that helped me get a job. Yet I knew a lot of employers would require a degree."

How You Can Get Indoctrinate U

Coyne Maloney has been featured on national media outlets like the Hannity and Colmes show on Fox as well as the Laura Ingraham show. Although it is still shown on campuses around the country, Indoctrinate U is now available for download directly from the Indoctrinate U website.

Shawn Cohen is public relations manager at CollegePlus! Because of his job, he gets to interview cool people like Evan, Alex and Brett Harris, college professors and government leaders. He likes that a lot.

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