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The social sciences have a problem: If their scholars think too much alike, they will be blinded to the flaws and gaps in their research.
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The fact that conservatives are outnumbered on college campuses isn’t groundbreaking news.
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Davidson College has an impressive academic reputation. It has a student-faculty ratio of 10:1. Nearly 90 percent of its courses have fewer than 30 students each.
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That famous line from the movie A Few Good Men-"You can't handle the truth!"-applies more and more to the world of higher education. If you doubt that, consider the case of professor Samuel Abrams of Sarah Lawrence College
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In the last few years, higher education has suffered an embarrassing series of well-publicized incidents of overt censorship by members of the academic community
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It is imperative that universities take the time to deeply reflect on their purpose (or rather, purposes). There is no better time for UNC-Chapel Hill to do so than now, as it crafts a new general education curriculum
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The ideological imbalance of American university faculties is not news. Whether one looks at faculty voter registrations, publications, course syllabi reading lists, or merely the steady stream of radical-left "outrages of the day," the evidence is amply sufficient
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There is something about judicial nominations that brings out the worst in U.S. Senators.
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Last week, a new finding about ideological imbalance made headlines all over the country. According to Matt Woessner, an associate professor of political science and public policy at Penn State Harrisburg, liberal professors now outnumber their conservative counterparts by a ratio of roughly 5 to 1.
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 1:34 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Academia's leftist tilt creates unique challenges for conservative students. While liberal students are taught by faculty who largely share their political and ideological worldview, conservatives students are often forced to take courses from faculty who fundamentally reject their core beliefs.
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