The Majority Of Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad For The U.S., Poll Shows | HuffPost

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> The Majority Of Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad For The U.S., Poll Shows
> Their opinions have shifted dramatically in just two years.
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> Mollie Reilly
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> More than half of the Republicans surveyed for a Pew Research Center poll released Monday say colleges and 
> universities are hurting the country, a drastic shift from how the same group viewed such institutions two years ago.
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> Fifty-eight percent of Republicans say colleges have a negative effect on the nation, according to the survey, which 
> also polled respondents on institutions like churches, banks, the media and labor unions. Thirty-six percent of GOP 
> survey participants say colleges are having a positive impact on the U.S. 
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> Those numbers represent a dramatic change from 2015, when 54 percent of Republicans said they had a positive view of 
> colleges. And although younger Republicans tend to have more favorable views of colleges than their older 
> counterparts, the number of Republicans under 50 years old who view college positively has dropped 21 points since 
> 2015.
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> Those shifts comes amid several high-profile controversies over freedom of speech on campuses across the country, 
> including protests earlier this year at the University of California, Berkeley after scheduled appearances by 
> conservative commentators Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos were canceled. Conservative critics have said these 
> incidents are silencing opposing ideas, while some people who disagree with inviting polarizing figures to campus say 
> the safety concerns in these cases outweigh the importance of free speech. 
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> The vast majority Democrats, meanwhile, say colleges are helping the nation: 72 percent say they think higher 
> education is having a positive effect, versus 19 percent who say such institutions are hurting the country. 
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> Overall, 55 percent of those polled say they hold a positive view of colleges.
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> The poll also showed wide partisan gaps in views of other institutions. Seventy-three percent of Republicans have a 
> positive view of the impact of churches and other religious institutions, compared to 50 percent of Democrats; 44 
> percent of Democrats think the media is good for the country, versus just 10 percent of Republicans.
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> The poll, conducted in June, surveyed 2,504 adults. You can view the full survey findings here.
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