With greater enrollment opportunity comes greater diversity in the caliber of students applying for college, added Leef. "Basically students can be divided into two groups, those who are willing to work hard and those who are not," he said. "These disengaged students don't read the assigned books, complain about demanding professors, and the ways in which courses are pitched."

The old idea of a core curriculum that is challenging to students has faded out like the dinosaur, replaced by one that has been "dumbed down" to appease these disengaged students, Leef added. Greater academic diversity has also opened the door to left-wing ideology, and the university has relaxed standards of academic freedom in favor of political correctness.

To illustrate, Leef cited an entire course devoted to affirmative action that was offered by one university. As colleges become more aware of educational sprawl, however, they can do something about it. Through student feedback, the Internet can shine a spotlight on courses in which professors are preaching political correctness rather than teaching. Alumni and trustees have begun putting pressure on administrations to "take back" the universities and to fight against watered down curriculums. And donors from the private sector have also begun demanding that universities reign in left-wing professors and make them accountable, Leef concluded.

Free Enterprise Award

Campbell University Trustee Deleon Parker, Sr. was presented the Adam Smith Club Free Enterprise Award. Parker is the founder and president of Inco, Inc., a commercial and industrial construction company serving the Southeastern United States. The annual Free Enterprise Award is given to individuals who have made outstanding personal and professional contributions and a lifelong commitment to the promotion of free enterprise.