Some articles I dug up regarding campus bias. I was initially made aware of this when I had to write a term paper on the communist manifesto several years ago in a political science class. I took a quick survey of the class after I thought I was graded rather harsh (IMO, it was a very well written paper) It turned out everyone who concluded Marx was right got at least an A- , everyone who disagreed with him averaged a C+. As it turns out, this was not an isolated incident.
Patrolling Professors' Politics
http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i23/23a01801.htm
http://www.campusreportonline....in/articles.php?id=258
http://www.yaf.org/press/media_coverage/fp_12_06_03.asp
http://www.nationalreview.com/...rtlett200412080850.asp
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1265757/posts
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/plecnik/041017
Patrolling Professors' Politics
http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i23/23a01801.htm
AIA Campus Report on College Bias"Our institutions of higher education have become institutions of indoctrination," declares Stephen Miller, a freshman at Duke. "That's a frightening trend."
http://www.campusreportonline....in/articles.php?id=258
Campus IndoctrinationDiane?s biggest victory was yet to come. She got an A- on her class paper on broadcast bias. ?He shuddered when he saw the title,? Diane remembers of her professor. ?But he could not refute anything in it.?
Next to a passage in the paper, Dr. Keith wrote, ?This doesn?t sound right.? The passage showed that most media corporations give most of their charitable donations, by an overwhelming margin, to left-wing charities.
Diane thought highly of that professor personally. She was equally impressed by his media credentials but found the insertion of his political views into classroom lectures annoying, to say the least.
http://www.yaf.org/press/media_coverage/fp_12_06_03.asp
Campus Bias - It?s even bigger than media bias.And I would remind this audience over one year after 9/11, at our most prestigious colleges, for example, Harvard and Yale, students are still today prohibited from participating in ROTC in the normal classroom. At Yale, they have to go to the University of Connecticut; at Harvard, they have to go to MIT. And it's inexcusable that students who are willing to defend this country, to prepare themselves to defend our freedoms, are stigmatized, not only by the left on the college campus, which calls them vicious names and treats them very cruelly, but the administration and the faculties as well.
http://www.nationalreview.com/...rtlett200412080850.asp
Former teacher sues college for political biasIn a larger study, Klein looked at voting patterns from a survey of academics throughout the country. He found that in anthropology, there are more than 30 votes cast for Democratic candidates for each 1 cast for a Republican. In sociology, the ratio is 28 to 1. Republicans do best among economists, who only vote Democratic by a 3 to 1 margin. In political science, the ratio is 6.7 to 1. On average, across all departments, Democrats get 15 votes for every 1 going to Republicans.
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Students pay a heavy price for this state of affairs. In certain fields like political science, it is simply impossible to receive a good education unless exposed to conservative thought. Students are also not likely to receive an adequate appreciation or understanding of the conservative perspective if it is only taught by those hostile to it. According to a new survey by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, almost half of students reported hearing only one side of political issues in their classrooms, with professors often using their positions to promote personal political views.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1265757/posts
Liberal bias against campus conservatives confronted: Freedom and the American campusA former professor at Monroe Community College says he was fired because he showed his support for President Bush. Dr. Michael Filozof says he was fired from his job as a political science professor after he was harassed by a predominantly left wing department. Monday morning he filed suit against MCC and now he wants a pay back.
"It was an American flag. I didn't think it was too controversial but apparently at MCC it was."
Filozof says his colleagues at MCC attacked his political views. It came as quite a shock considering many professors decorate their office doors with political messages. The difference between his and others he says is that he's conservative while the others are liberal.
"The faculty at many institutions are not balanced. They live in a bubble, they don't live in the real world and they've got views out of the mainstream. If you bring mainstream views into academia, you get discriminated against."
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Conservatives say they are discouraged from expressing their views in class, and blackballed from graduate school slots and jobs.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/plecnik/041017
Miller told the story of how Smith College denied him tenure for his conservative views. Despite publishing 6 scholarly articles and a book, the young professor also contributed to National Review Online and the Weekly Standard...mortal sins in academia. The discrimination was so blatant, however, that Smith had little choice but to reverse its decision and grant tenure. One liberal colleague actually wrote a letter explaining how she voted against Miller's tenure because she was disturbed by his views.