Arkansas governor says professors should be fired if they are 'indoctrinating' students [View all]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said college professors should be fired if they are “indoctrinating” students, echoing rhetoric her former boss President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans have leveled against institutions of higher education.
Sanders, a Republican who served as press secretary for part of Trump’s first term, made the proposal as she delivered her state of the state address for this year’s legislative session.
“Arkansas students go to our colleges and universities to be educated, not to be bombarded with anti-American, historically illiterate woke nonsense,” Sanders told members of the predominantly Republican House and Senate. “We will make it so that any professor, tenured or not, that wastes time indoctrinating our students instead of educating them can be terminated from their job.”
It’s unclear how such a restriction would be enforced. Sanders’ office did not immediately give examples of the types of topics that would be barred under her proposal. Sanders made the vow as part of a plan to improve the state’s higher education system, including changes to its funding formula.
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