While I applaud this documentary's attempt to address the problem of limited academic freedom, I was deeply disappointed to see that this film polarizes the issue. It simply isn't true that the conservative opinion is always silenced in academia and the liberal opinion is praised and encouraged. Depending upon the university, it can very easily be the other way around. In my experience of teaching at a Catholic university, I have seen students and faculty--both liberal and conservative--being silenced. So many factors cause this: the university administration, the university's religious and other affiliations, faculty who are intolerant of opinions other than their own, students who are equally intolerant, etc. This film fails to take into account that conservative students and faculty are not the only ones who can be limited in expressing their views. It also fails to consider the fact that many (maybe not the majority, but certainly a large number of) professors and students welcome constructive dialog within the campus community. It appears to me that this film has used a small handful of extreme cases of silencing within academia to create a largely unfounded argument that American universities are centers of liberal indoctrination. Issues of silencing and academic freedom need to be studied and addressed, but this documentary falls pitifully short of the objectivity it touts.

That was the opening statement by Evan Coyle Maloney, start with your conclusions, cull the information to find your agenda. This obscure documentary went to obscurity because it lives up to it's title to indoctrinate. I hope that a conservative that will make a documentary that is informative and not shrill preaching, but this documentary leaves me with only that hope.This documentary has decided that colleges are censoring conservatives and proceeds to cherry pick a few excesses, attempts to make generalizations and ignores the concept there are other possibilities than bad evil liberals being the cause of censorship. Maloney attempts a few Michael Moore style ambush interviews, but quickly falls back to a boring lecture. This is partly a function of not having a budget, but is more of a function of being dishonest and lazy. I expect little from conservatives, but this was much less than little.

I would definitely urge people--especially college students and professors--to watch this documentary. Watch and listen. Listen without formulating a response to every scene that the filmmaker creates. You may just find yourself a tad enlightened. The film-making is not great, but the information contained therein is quite good.My experience getting a Ph.D. was precisely like what is portrayed in "Indoctrinate U." Would I have proudly announced my conservative leanings to my professors and peers? Heck no! Only unless I wanted to be a campus outcast and have no professor willing to serve on my dissertation committee. Would I have admitted to listening to Rush Limbaugh on occasion or being pro-life? Perish the thought! Only unless I wanted to spend four years receiving dirty glances and hateful comments.Maybe everyone's experience wasn't mine, but the modern-day university isn't a place a thought-diversity . . . and in my book, that's the most important type of diversity there is.

This documentary holds a mirror up to liberal academia in the US and dares them to look at the reflection it casts.It reminded me of my college days, where I felt that I needed to conceal my conservative views from my professors to preserve my good grades.It also reminded me of something from "Someplace To Be Flying" by Charles de Lint: "Then how do you change the world?" "By being strong and true." ..."The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." ..."And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just somebody else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so that you see yourself in it." In this little film, Coyne Maloney has skillfully crafted his mirror, but that was the easy part. The real challenge is getting his subjects to gaze into it. In order to even see this film, I had to buy it from the film maker's web page. I'm sure that "Indoctrinate U" won't be winning any awards at the "Aspen Filmfest" or the "Woodstock Film Festival".Not for lack of merit, but for lack of an audience.