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The value of ideological diversity among university faculty
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This paper argued that the lack of political diversity among American university faculty hampers the ability of universities to fulfill their core mission of advancing and disseminating knowledge and argued that university faculty are not ideologically diverse.Abstract:
Conservatives in the United States have grown increasingly critical of universities and their faculty, convinced that professors are ideologues from the political left. Universities, for their part, have increasingly adopted a mantra of diversity and inclusivity, but have shown little interest in diversifying the political and ideological profile of their faculties. This essay argues that the lack of political diversity among American university faculty hampers the ability of universities to fulfill their core mission of advancing and disseminating knowledge. The argument is advanced through a series of four questions: Is it true that university faculty are not ideologically diverse? Why might it be true? Does it matter? How might it be fixed.read more
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Viewpoint Diversity at UNC Charlotte
Matthew Metzgar,Mary Jo McGowan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors deployed a survey to business students asking how comfortable they were sharing and responding to different viewpoints and found that a portion of students are censoring their views on controversial topics.
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The influence of professional identity of ideological and political workers in colleges and universities on innovation behavior-mediating effect based on policy perception
TL;DR: This article explored the influencing factors and mechanism of innovative behavior of ideological and political workers in universities, constructing a theoretical model with policy perception as the mediating variable, and using data to verify the model.
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COLLEGE MAJOR CHOICE: An Analysis of Person–Environment Fit
Stephen R. Porter,Paul D. Umbach +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used the CIRP Freshman Survey and institutional data for three cohorts of first-year students at a selective liberal arts college to study the factors that affect college major choice, both at entry and at graduation.
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Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty
TL;DR: Rothman et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the ideological composition of American university faculty and then tested whether ideological homogeneity has become self-reinforcing, finding that conservatives and Republicans teach at lower quality schools than do liberals and Democrats.
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Professors and their politics: The policy views of social scientists
Daniel B. Klein,Charlotta Stern +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that academic social scientists overwhelmingly vote Democratic and the Democratic hegemony has increased significantly since 1970, and the policy preferences of a large sample of the members of the scholarly associations in anthropology, economics, history, legal and political philosophy, political science, and sociology generally bear out conjectures about the correspondence of partisan identification with left/right ideal types; although across the board, both Democratic and Republican academics favor government action more than the ideal types might suggest.
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Why are professors liberal
Neil Gross,Ethan Fosse +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the explanatory power of the main hypotheses proposed over the last half century to account for professors' liberal views and developed a new theory of professors' politics on the basis of these findings.
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Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care
TL;DR: Gross argues that "political typing" plays an overlooked role in shaping academic liberalism as mentioned in this paper and explains how academic liberalism became a self-reproducing phenomenon, and why Americans on both the left and right should take notice.
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