Some would argue that a healthy tension between the student body and a university administration, embodied through an active student union, student government, and campus clubs, is necessary to keep intellectual and political debate rigorous. However, when professors start to pierce that veil of objectivity representing part of the college administration and leave their teaching role to further a political aim, students are done a disservice.

The conservative think tanks and institutions are busily configuring lesson plans, compilations of texts, and other educational materials to make it easier for professors with conservative leanings to pressure students into learning a certain version of events.

One conservative think tank educator said that his institution, the Veritas Fund for Higher Education, aims to "work against the thrust of programs and courses in gender, race and class studies, and postmodernism in general."

Ironically, one such educational initiative is called “Program on Freedom and Free Societies.”

Will the conquistadores and the brutal legacy they left behind be recast into a tale of adventuring heroes who brought civilization to a new continent?

Will the requisite textbooks mention that the U.S. had slavery almost one hundred years after it had been abolished in England and eradicated in most of Western Europe?

Will the lesson plans discuss the nuclear family unit, as envisaged in the 1950s, as the model we have strayed away from and must return to for the sake of our children’s morality lest they become social and sexual deviants?

What will this program have to say about the effect that current administration has had on the national economy and our standing in the world?

Although history was written by mostly privileged, highly educated Anglo-Saxon men, apparently it's the only history worth telling.