The Left uses college campuses to promote its ideological agenda. Many faculty and administrators are fervent “progressives” who want to transform America through governmental power. In their view, good education creates young social-justice-warrior types.

Should the taxpayers of a state put up with that?

No, say legislators in Florida, who have passed a bill that is designed to counter the pervasive leftist influence. In today’s Martin Center article, Jenna Robinson writes about the bill, saying, “Earlier this week, the Florida legislature passed a bill that may become a model for the nation. House Bill 931, sponsored by State Representative Spencer Roach, requires universities to host public-policy debates and bans the use of political litmus tests in hiring and admissions.”

The first provision addresses a severe imbalance on college campuses with respect to public-policy events, which strongly tilt in favor of the Left. The second deals with the growing problem of policies that screen out applicants who don’t support leftist obsessions.

Robinson believes that, since viewpoint diversity, “academic freedom, open inquiry, honest debate, and the search for truth” are essential, Florida’s example is a model for elsewhere. Read the whole piece.