This is the month for college rankings, and Brigham Young University has made yet another list. But this one is different.
Several publications annually rank the nation's top colleges and universities. BYU has performed well on several of those lists, although at least one publication has BYU's academics slipping a bit compared to last year.The latest, and perhaps most unusual, ranking is Insight magazine's top 10 "politically incorrect" schools. The entry on BYU says the Provo school features an "extensive honors program, conservative atmosphere."
Insight, an alternative newsmagazine based in Washington, D.C., applauded uni-versities "that are true to themselves and haven't altered their traditions to fit academic fashions or fads."
The magazine's Sept. 8 cover story said America's prestigious schools, such as Harvard and Stanford, "are those that have most altered their academic makeup to fit notions of what's fashionable in education."
Along with nine other colleges, BYU was lauded for not trying to fit the popular mold of universities that are failing in their objective to educate the whole student in exchange for flawed notions of political correctness, diversity and post-modernism.