David Horowitz’s “academic bill of rights” drew little interest on Thursday at a meeting of the State University of New York Board of Trustees’ Academic Standards Committee, according to an article in today’s Democrat and Chronicle, a Rochester newspaper.

Mr. Horowitz, an outspoken conservative activist, has been pitching his “bill of rights” to lawmakers across the country, based on his view that higher education is full of leftist professors who are filling up classroom time with ideological ranting and who are indoctrinating impressionable students (The Chronicle, May 6, 2005).

No state legislatures have come close to enacting the “bill of rights,” although Pennsylvania lawmakers have held a series of hearings designed to highlight instances in which they say political conservatives have been discriminated against on college campuses (The Chronicle, January 11).

At the SUNY meeting, four campus presidents, five faculty members, and one student told trustees that academic freedom was adequately protected on their campuses. But according to the Democrat and Chronicle, one professor said conservative views were missing on the SUNY-Brockport campus. The trustees took no action.