Issues@Hand

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January-February 2018 – In a recent speech, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, “The American university was once the center of academic freedom, a place of robust debate, a forum for the competition of ideas. But it is transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and homogeneous thought, a shelter for fragile egos.” But not so at College of the Ozarks, a four-year Christian liberal arts college in Point Lookout, Missouri.

CO is now requiring all freshmen to take a new course, Patriotic Education and Fitness. The course, made mandatory as of fall 2017, adopts ROTC programming, physical education, and the college’s existing standard for patriotic education. The course is meant to ensure that if young people choose to protest, they are not doing so out of ignorance.

College president Jerry Davis said the new class is “a balance against a pervasive negative view of America” that has been sweeping across the country for years.

“The college itself has a patriotic goal,” Davis added. “And if you look at what that goal is, we define it as understanding American heritage, civic responsibilities, love of country, and willingness to defend it.”

onenewsnow.com, 10/29/17

At CO, no tuition is charged, no school loans are made, and all students work on campus.