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Quote:Campaign for Obama, get college credit
Published: 1:07 AM 08/31/2012
By Robby Soave
Reporter, The Daily Caller News Foundation

A [regionally accredited] public university in Colorado may have violated state law by offering students course credit if they volunteered with President Obama’s re-election campaign. A blog post on the [regionally accredited] Adams State University website billed the opportunity as a “12 week long organizing internship for the Obama Campaign.”

Both the blog post and the course are now gone. The course was canceled due to lack of interest, according to the [regionally accredited] university. The blog post was taken down earlier this week after a conservative student blog, Campus Reform, reported on it.

The course may have been in violation of the Colorado Fair Campaign Practices Act, which prohibits the use of public resources toward “campaigns involving the nomination, retention, or election of any person to any public office.” Oliver Darcy, the editor at Campus Reform who first reported the story, said the course struck him as a likely violation of state law.

“They are definitely using a few professors at least to help these students with the campaign process, so I don’t understand how it doesn’t use public resources for campaign purposes,” he said in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.

A spokesperson for the [regionally accredited] university said the blog post was mistaken about the nature of the course, and that students would have been allowed to volunteer with any campaign. [LIAR! See screen shot below.]

“This is an independent study course that would be available to any student in any campaign,” said Julie Waechter, a spokesperson for ASU, in an interview with TheDC News Foundation.

Waechter declined to give the name of the employee who authorized the course. Dodie Day, the administrator who posted the blog entry, declined to comment.

According to Waechter, the Obama administration reached out to the university about hosting such an offer.

“The Obama campaign did approach the school. Others campaigns did not,” she said, adding that the school would have considered a similar offer from the Republican campaign of Gov. Mitt Romney.

But Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars and a chronicler of political bias in academia, said universities have no business awarding class credit for political activity at all.

“The principle here is that this sort of stuff does not belong in the classroom, and that also it is not something for which students should be receiving academic credit,” said Wood in an interview with TheDC News Foundation. “The public funding that goes into a university is not there to advance political campaigns.”

Earlier this week, Wood reported on a similar instance of liberal political activity entering the classroom at [regionally accredited] Ohio State University. Professor Brian McHale wrote an e-mail to colleagues asking them to set aside class time for campaign organizers to pitch students on getting involved with the Obama campaign.

“I’ve been in touch with a couple of campus organizers for the Obama campaign, who have asked me to pass along to all of you a request for access to your classes in the next few weeks,” wrote McHale in the e-mail.

For Wood, incidents like the ones at ASU and OSU fit an extensive pattern of improper cooperation between the Obama campaign and university officials.

“It’s one of those things I add to the documentation of fairly numerous instances in which the Obama campaign has crossed the line,” he said.

Stephanie Freer, a recent graduate of Northern Arizona University and conservative activist in Colorado, was disturbed that ASU would advertise a class that promoted a liberal political agenda.

“This public school is funneling students into working for the Obama campaign,” she said in an interview with TheDC News Foundation. “It isn’t right for a public university to be promoting that type of campaign work for course credit.”

Screen shot of webpage, clearly stating it is an "Obama Campaign Internship."

Quote:College suspends professor for allegedly attempting to force students to vote for Obama
By Oliver Darcy, on Sep 17, 2012

A college professor has been placed on leave after she allegedly forced her class to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama in the upcoming elections.

Early last week Professor Sharon Sweet at [regionally accredited] Brevard Community College (BCC) allegedly told students to sign a pledge that reads: “I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.”

The pledge was printed off of GottaVote.org, a website funded by the Obama campaign.

University administrators said they learned about the incident late Thursday afternoon and launched an investigation, after they received a phone call from a concerned parent.

“Based on the allegations, Associate Professor Sweet has requested, and been granted, a leave of absence without pay effective immediately,” reads a statement put out by John Glisch, Associate Vice President for Communications at BCC.

“The college will continue its investigation into the matter, which will include interviews with all students in her class,” continues the statement.

Sweet’s actions may have also violated Florida’s election laws.

Section 104.31, of Title IX in chapter 104, states that “no officer or employee of the state... shall... use his or her official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or nomination of officer or influencing another person’s vote or affecting the result thereof.”

Hmm...she was preaching to the choir I suppose...