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[00:00.48]A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters
[00:06.48]say American colleges and universities
[00:09.88]have a negative effect on the United States.
[00:15.04]That is one of the findings of a new report by the Pew Research Center.
[00:21.20]The report was based on phone interviews with more than 2,500 adults
[00:28.04]across the United States and the District of Columbia.
[00:33.36]Over the past two years, Pew found the share of Republicans and Republican leaners
[00:41.20]who view the effect of colleges and universities positively
[00:46.00]has dropped 18 percentage points.
[00:49.88]In the past, a little more than half had a positive view.
[00:55.24]Now only about one-third do.
[00:58.32]Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents
[01:03.92]see the value of colleges and universities very differently.
[01:08.96]Pew said 72 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaners
[01:16.24]say colleges have a positive effect on the United States
[01:21.04]-- little changed from recent years.
[01:25.64]Some of the opinions about the value of college differ based on age.
[01:32.40]Pew reported that half of Republicans and Republican-leaners
[01:37.72]aged 18 to 29 say colleges have a positive effect on the country.
[01:44.60]But only about one-quarter of Republican and Republican-leaners 65 and older
[01:52.32]say colleges have a positive effect.
[01:57.12]A former Republican congressman from Louisiana, Billy Tauzin,
[02:02.08]said he believes many Republicans are unhappy that at some colleges
[02:07.84]conservative speakers are not only unwelcome, but blocked from speaking.
[02:14.80]This year some students at the University of California - Berkeley
[02:19.68]and Middlebury College in Vermont demonstrated violently against conservative speakers.
[02:27.60]The demonstrations drew wide coverage and criticism
[02:32.40]by news media favored by conservatives.
[02:37.52]David Andersen, who teaches political science at Iowa State University,
[02:43.56]said he is not surprised Republicans and Republican-leaning adults
[02:50.32]have a negative opinion of American higher education.
[02:56.76]"One of the things going on is that there is an anti-elitism
[03:02.52]and anti-intellectualism among some in the Republican Party," Andersen said.
[03:11.08]Andersen said he sees distrust in his own classroom
[03:16.00]among students from largely Republican and conservative communities in Iowa.
[03:24.40]"Students are very willing to push back as we discuss issues," he said.
[03:31.32]"But that's the whole point of being at a university.
[03:35.76]Let's talk about what you believe and see how it matches up with the facts."
[03:43.16]On some issues, such as climate change,
[03:47.13]Andersen offers information about the big majority of scientists
[03:52.68]who say climate change is real and caused by man-made activities.
[03:59.28]When they get home, some students talk with their families
[04:03.48]about classroom discussions that conflict with the ones at home.
[04:09.72]Sometimes, those conversations do not go well. "One student said,
[04:16.36]'My uncle yelled at me for two hours
[04:19.80]because he thought I had become a godless liberal,'" Andersen said.
[04:26.96]Andersen said he believes most Americans without a college education
[04:32.60]still want their children to go to college, hoping they will gain better job opportunities.
[04:41.64]William Eveland Jr., a professor at the School of Communication
[04:46.60]and the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University,
[04:51.52]said there may be other reasons Republicans do not favor colleges and universities.
[04:58.40]One of them is the increased cost of college, and the increasing number
[05:04.40]of students and parents who go into heavy debt to pay off loans.
[05:11.88]The Pew Research Center report found Republicans have an even worse opinion
[05:17.56]of the news media than they do of American colleges.
[05:22.56]Pew found 85 percent of Republicans and people who lean Republican
[05:28.68]say the news media has a negative effect on the United States.
[05:34.60]Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults are divided
[05:39.04]-- with 44 percent saying the news media has a positive effect
[05:45.00]and 46 percent saying it has a negative effect.
[05:50.20]I'm Bruce Alpert.
[05:52.76]And I'm Jill Robbins. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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