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New Report Says Faculty Bias An Unproven Claim
Date: 11/17/2008 05:28 pm
The Torch, the student newspaper of St. John’s University, covers a new report by John Lee, Ed.D., the founder and president of an education research and analysis group. The report analyzed eight studies claiming to find a liberal bias in college classrooms (which, in the opinion of critics, marginalizes conservative voices and promotes liberal priorities). The new report concludes that, while it is true that faculty are more often Democrats than Republicans, none of the eight analyzed studies was able to show how professors’ political beliefs affected their professional responsibilities.
