Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said college professors should be fired if they are “indoctrinating” students, echoing rhetoric her former boss President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans have leveled against institutions of higher education.
Sanders, a Republican who served as press secretary for part of Trump's first term, made the proposal as she delivered her state of the state address for this year's legislative session.
“Arkansas students go to our colleges and universities to be educated, not to be bombarded with anti-American, historically illiterate woke nonsense,” Sanders told members of the predominantly Republican House and Senate.
“Sanders is doing a disservice to Arkansas students by suggesting she will deny due process for faculty with ideas she disagrees with," Wolfson said.
Sanders made the vow as part of a plan to improve the state's higher education system, including changes to its funding formula.
