Require "Learning Impact Reports?"

Blogger's not letting me comment on this interesting post on Stranded on Blue Islands:

A reader sends this story from the "make your day" section of the news:

The head of a gender studies program at Hamilton College has resigned after igniting a furor by inviting to the campus a professor who likened the Sept. 11 victims to Nazis.

Nancy Rabinowitz said she was stepping down "under duress" as director of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture. She will continue to teach comparative literature. ....

Rabinowitz also drew fire in November when the program she headed offered a temporary teaching position to 1960s radical Susan Rosenberg. Rosenberg was indicted but never tried in a 1981 armored car robbery that left a guard and two police officers dead. She was sentenced for 58 years in prison for weapons possession, but President Clinton granted her clemency in 2001 after she served 16 years.

Rabinowitz has been the project's only director since its founding in 1996.

"What the project needs now is someone more adept at the kind of political and media fight that the current climate requires. Therefore, it is in the interests of the mission of the project itself and for no other reason that I am yielding to requests that I resign," she said

So, here's my comment:

I'm hardly one for more regulation, but what if colleges were required to file a "Learning Impact Report" on new courses, similar to an Environmental Impact Report. As long as federal dollars are involved, shouldn't the public have oversight as to a proposed course's impact on American ideals and the proper indoctrination ... education ... of our children?

The scrutiny on the Ward Churchills and Nancy Rabinowitz's of the world needs to happen now, not after they've had 10 or 20 years to ruin our children.