Originally Posted By: WillsYoda
There are some misunderstandings here about the bias of teachers and professors. Here is something a little more telling...
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Study finds that the more students engage with faculty members and academics, the more their political views moderate. Student [extra-curricular] activities are what appear to encourage those already leaning left or right to tilt further.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014...liberal-college
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"There's some pretty good evidence that going to college leads people to have more liberal attitudes on social issues, in particular on issues of tolerance, of difference and issues of gender equity," said Neil Gross, sociology professor at Colby College, who has studied liberalism at colleges... [A] possibility, Gross says, might be the growing numbers of women getting college and advanced degrees. Women also in general tend to vote for Democrats more than men. So as the population of highly educated people grew more female, that may have swung it left. But then, Gross has also written about strong evidence that
college really doesn't move people's broader political beliefs (about, for example, the size of government) that much.
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/30/475794063/why-are-highly-educated-americans-getting-more-liberal
So college tends to
moderate students' views when the students spend a lot of time with the professors, and in general student views on politics do not change much in college. While it is true that professors tend to be more liberal on social issues related to tolerance, they tend to be moderate to conservative in other areas like economic policy.
The vast majority of INTOLERANCE on campus seems to come from the left. It's quite common for leftists to shout down opposing points of view if that opposing point of view is even permitted to speak at the campus at all.
When was the last time you remember conservatives protesting and getting VIOLENT towards a liberal guest at the campus?
I still believe that most college campuses are hotbeds of liberalism and their nasty attitude (and often violent actions) towards those that disagree with them is very unbecoming for supposedly 'educated' people.
Just last week at a college commencement the students booed and turned their back on the Secretary of Education.....many believe they were encouraged on by their professors because of her stance on school choice and charter schools which the teachers unions vehemently oppose.