David Horowitz is an idiot.<\/p>\n
Granted, anyone with any sense has known this for a good while now, but now we can prove it with SCIENCE!!! Well, political science– Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> reports on a study of student political views<\/a> that finds that liberal faculty make no real difference:<\/p>\n One of the key arguments made by David Horowitz and his supporters in recent years is that a left-wing orientation among faculty members results in a lack of curricular balance, which in turn leads to students being indoctrinated rather than educated. […]<\/p>\n A study that will appear soon in the journal PS: Political Science & Politics accepts the first part of the critique of academe and says that it’s true that the professoriate leans left. But the study — notably by one Republican professor and one Democratic professor — finds no evidence of indoctrination. Despite students being educated by liberal professors, their politics change only marginally in their undergraduate years, and that deflates the idea that cadres of tenured radicals are somehow corrupting America’s youth — or scaring them into adopting new political views.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This really isn’t a surprise to anyone in education. After all, we tend to have limited success in getting students to retain anything about the subjects we’re actively trying to teach them. For Horowitz’s accusations to have any merit, subliminal education would need to be astonishingly effective. In Horowitz-world, I’d probably be better off spending three hours a week talking to my intro mechanics classes about politics, letting them learn Newton’s Laws by osmosis.<\/p>\n But, as I said at the top, David Horowitz is an idiot. The study does find a tiny leftward shift of student political identification, but even with that, “college students graduate with a smaller share of people identifying as ‘far left’ than does the 18-24 year old cohort of the U.S. population.”<\/p>\n Now, can we all please find something to argue about that makes sense in this<\/strong> universe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Horowitz is an idiot. Granted, anyone with any sense has known this for a good while now, but now we can prove it with SCIENCE!!! Well, political science– Inside Higher Ed reports on a study of student political views that finds that liberal faculty make no real difference: One of the key arguments made… Continue reading So Much for Faculty Indoctrination<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n