Monday, February 25, 2019

Leftist Interest Groups Calling the Shots at Many American Universities

According to a recently published investigative report, leftist interest groups are secretly playing a major role at many American Universities, often funded in part by mandatory student fees.

According to a report by the Capital Research Center, "Public interest research groups" are playing a silent yet major role at many major American universities.

The report makes the case that these interest groups use universities and their students to advance a progressive partisan agenda.

Public interest research groups often raise funds via dishonest or deceitful methods.

As David Seidemann, an environmental science professor at Brooklyn College, wrote in 2016: "Administrators at public universities across the country have granted [the PIRGs] unique campus privileges and funneled millions of dollars-in part, from mandatory student fees." As a result, the New York chapter of PIRG now "Raises more money than all other campus student groups and surreptitiously diverts those funds to its statewide lobbying operations"-as much as $1 million forcibly raised from the pockets of college students each year.

Many of these groups are using these funds to promote a partisan political agenda, such as the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group.

Students should demand transparency from their universities on all matters that involve third-party interest groups.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/25/report-leftist-interest-groups-calling-the-shots-at-many-american-universities/

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