While college protesters continue to block conservative speakers, Lauren Noble is taking action to provide a conservative perspective in the education system.
Lauren Noble is the founder and executive director of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale University.
Noble started the program while a student after she saw there was an absence of a conservative perspective offered on campus.
“There is certainly a real trend of illiberal intolerance that I really think has expanded on campuses across the country not just at Yale. Of course, you’ve seen there’s headlines about dis-invitations and disruptions and now we’ve even seen violence break out on college campuses over guest speakers and that’s obviously quite troubling,” Noble said.
But Noble said despite these protests, there is still a demand for conservative ideology on college campuses.
And through the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, she is providing this education to both liberal and conservative college students.
Noble said if we dismiss what’s happening on many college campuses it is at our own peril, because both conservatives and liberals benefit from a healthy exchange of ideas.
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