Education Santorum Claims California Universities Don’t Teach American History (Updated) 
 
 Rick Santorum has previously called colleges “ indoctrination mills ” that make students liberal and Godless, and labeled President Obama a “snob” for wanting kids to get educated. “Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image ,” Santorum said. 
 
 Santorum continued his broadside against higher education (and the facts) today in Wisconsin, claiming that “seven or eight” of the ten schools in the University of California system “don’t even teach an American history course”: 
 
 SANTORUM: I was just reading something last night from the state of California. And that the California universities — I think it’s seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course. It’s not even available to be taught. 
 
 Watch it (we apologize for the poor video quality): 
 
 In fact, of the 10 UC system schools, just one (San Francisco) doesn’t offer American history courses. But that’s because it doesn’t offer any humanities courses at all — it’s a medical school. 
 
 Meanwhile, Berkeley, Irvine, Davis, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz all offer numerous American history courses. All require students to take U.S. history before they can graduate. ||||| ABC News 
 
 GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said this morning on "This Week" that "a lot" of Americans have no desire to go to college and defended previous comments he made calling President Obama a "snob" for encouraging more Americans to seek higher education. 
 
 "There are a lot of people in this country that have no desire or no aspiration to go to college, because they have a different set of skills and desires and dreams that don't include college," said Santorum. "And to sort of lay out there that somehow this is - this is - should be everybody's goal, I think, devalues the tremendous work that people who, frankly, don't go to college and don't want to go to college because they have a lot of other talents and skills that, frankly, college, you know, four-year colleges may not be able to assist them. " 
 
 I also asked Santorum about recent comments he made to Glenn Beck about colleges, calling them "indoctrination mills." He defended those comments to me. 
 
 "I mean, you look at the colleges and universities, George. This is not - this is not something that's new for most Americans, is how liberal our colleges and universities are and how many children in fact are - look, I've gone through it. I went through it at Penn State. You talk to most kids who go to college who are conservatives, and you are singled out, you are ridiculed, you are - I can tell you personally, I know that, you know, we - I went through a process where I was docked for my conservative views. " 
 
 Santorum said he was not discouraging college education, but rather citing a major problem in many American colleges and universities. 
 
 "We have some real problems at our college campuses with political correctness, with an ideology that is forced upon people who, you know, who may not agree with the politically correct left doctrine," he said.
– Rick Santorum continued his verbal assault on higher education today by accusing California universities of failing to "even teach an American history course." The GOP candidate slammed UC universities during a speech in Wisconsin, Mediaite reports, saying that "I think it's seven or eight" schools that neglect US history: "Just to tell you how bad it’s gotten in this country, where we’re trying to disconnect the American people from the roots of who we are, so they have an understanding of what America should be." But a University of California rep emailed ThinkProgress to say that all UC undergraduate programs require US history credits. According to Mediaite, only the San Francisco campus fails to offer US history courses—because it's a medical school. Perhaps Santorum is on a roll after calling President Obama "a snob" for wanting "everybody in America to go to college." He's not alone among Republicans, however: Mitt Romney has taken a whack at higher education by pooh-poohing the notion of student aid.