America


Traditional-Values Colleges Enjoy Nationwide Surge


They instill thirst for open debate, constitutionally protected free speech, and “Great Books” curriculum.


U BY DAVID A. PATTEN


.s. colleges in president Donald Trump’s second term are rediscovering the ideals and principles that


conservative scholars say are what made America great in the first place. On many college campuses, civics


and traditional American values are suddenly back in vogue. New bastions of traditional values in higher educa- tion are springing up nationwide. “When you think about the tra- dition of higher education in our


country historically, every university started out with the foundation of the Christian worldview perspective,” says Brian Mueller, presi- dent of the nondenomina- tional Grand Canyon Uni- versity in Phoenix, where enrollment has swelled to over 100,000 students. “The Bible was the foundational textbook, in a way.” That much-maligned Judeo-Christian world-


Princeton Restores SATs P


rinceton University will mandate SAT or ACT scores


for undergraduate admissions starting with the 2027-2028 cycle, ending a seven-year test- optional policy launched during COVID-19. Harvard, Penn, and Brown


reinstated tests for 2024-2025 or 2025-2026. Yale has gone


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only Ivy League school to remain permanently


view, Mueller notes, birthed the idea of God-given rights, plus the notion that God allows people to make their own choices — the foundation of free enterprise. “Those things were so core to the


society that was formed and the cul- ture that was built,” Muel- ler tells Newsmax. “Unfortunately, we’ve


now gone completely oppo- site of that,” he adds. “It’s very dangerous


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testing-optional. Jonathan Turley, legal


test-flexible, accepting AP or IB scores too. Cornell, Dartmouth, and others among Princeton’s peers also dropped test-optional stances.


Columbia is the


commentator and professor, cheered Princeton’s move by writing it was “only the latest reversal for an ill-conceived and


when we have 20- and 21-year-olds in our coun- try who don’t understand 20th-century Western civi- lization and its history.”


poorly supported movement to achieve greater equity and diversity by eliminating standardized testing in higher education.” He said test scores are better


Columbia is the only Ivy League school to remain permanently testing-optional.


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