Here's a little lesson in technology for de Russy and Kline. When you Google "college and university courses in community organizing" without quotation marks you get 23 million results, including a handful of actual courses. Almost all of the 23 million responses include various references, anywhere on the internet, to a college, a university, courses, a community, or organizing. The precise number of responses tells you absolutely nothing about anything.

If you actually Google "college and university courses in community organizing" utilizing quotation marks you get two responses. One is to Kline's statement, and the other is to de Russy's comment on it (there are also 30 duplicate references on Free Republic to their claims).

The most disappointing thing to me about this Google search is that there isn't a vast conspiracy out there in higher education to teach people the kind of skills that most Americans desired to have in a president. A New York Times article [3] reports a growing interest in the subject among students. Although colleges routinely have entire majors devoted to vapid fields such as public relations that serve corporate America, you'll look in vain for any majors in community organizing. After all, there aren't a lot of wealthy community organizers out there to fund these programs.

That's what really needs to change. We need colleges to meet this demand for community organizing, and give it the serious academic attention it deserves. And perhaps someday, there will be courses and majors in community organizing across the country.

When that happens, de Russy and Kline can cry out with pride that they discovered the problem before it ever existed.

Crossposted on CollegeFreedom [4] and DailyKos [5].