In general, is there political bias in American universities?

by Prager University Posted 2012/04/03 06:25:56

Related Topics: Class, California, Times, LA, University, Teaching, Curriculum, American University, Time

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	No, Universities present both sides of political issues equally.	14 votes	7%
	Yes, There is an overall left-wing bias.	143 votes	74%
	Yes, There is an overall right-wing bias.	4 votes	2%
	Doesn't Apply, Most university professors do not present political views or curricula.	33 votes	17%

An LA Times article was recently published noting the disproportionate number of Democrat professors teaching at California universities. A study noted in the article purports that there is left-wing bias in both the chosen curriculum and the issues presented in class.

What do you think?

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SJMC 2012/04/09 23:41:15

Yes, There is an overall left-wing bias.

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At least I hope there's a liberal bias.
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Nameless to mae 2012/04/10 00:04:54

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I was going to say something similar, but the article did mention universities in California. I was, though, thinking of places like Liberty University and Cedarville University - both of which would NEVER allow a true liberal to teach. Whereas, many much more liberal universities would allow a conservative to teach...

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MJG2112 to mae 2012/04/10 10:51:48

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I believe it also depends largely upon the professor's experience and the subject being taught. I have typically found that profs with business experience primarily rooted in the "real world" tend to present subject matter from a middle to right-leaning perspective while profs whose experience is primarily academic tend to be much more left-leaning. Prestigeous schools such as Harvard place academia in the highest regard and this is probably the reason for their extremist political views.

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mae to MJG2112 2012/04/10 14:08:08

Agreed. I never thought of Harvard as a place of extremeist views. I knew two professors who were quite right-wing--one was a mathmatics professor, the other a physicist. This was in the mid 1970's, at the height of Black Panthers, Angela Davis, People's Park, Symbianese Liberation Army, Chicago 7...guess where they taught? U.C.Berkley!

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