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The liberal academic myth?


Submitted by Cynthia on November 3, 2008 - 12:55am


In "Professors' Liberalism Contagious? Maybe Not" the NY Times reports on a study that counters the widely held conservative view that academia is indoctrinating students with liberal politics...and changing them. Not so, says this study. So much for the pressure to create faculty positions in conservatism and watchdog departments. Now, if those conservatives would just stop stealing our Obama signs from our front yards, come Nov 5th we might just teach them a thing or two about rhetorical ethos.