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LOL - They know which side of their bread is buttered and has jam. Anyway, surely you know know they are
all into brainwashing students with liberal ideas. conix knows, assumed you would too. Chuckle, that said:

conix, No, Professors Aren't Discriminating Against Conservative Students
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No, Professors Are Not Brainwashing Their Students

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ForReal, Five myths about liberal academia
"Colleges should spend more time teaching and not trying to politically indoctrinate students."
1. Today's professors are more moderate than radical professors from the 1960s.
2. College professors turn their students into liberals.
3. Tenure permits professors to espouse fringe views without consequence.
4. Conservative academics are ostracized on campus.
5. College professors are liberal because better-educated people tilt left.

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But there are more compelling reasons to doubt that even attempted indoctrination takes place in any generalizable way. The first is simply that, as shown above, faculty have little-to-no effect on students’ political views. Given their sustained proximity, one would think that if professors really were trying to brainwash their students, there would be some sign of it having an effect.

Second, there is little evidence .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/16/do-universities-have-self-censorship-problem/ .. that faculty are making use of their most powerful tool for enforcing political orthodoxy: grading. After taking account of non-political factors ... https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3383704 .. (e.g., course of study, family background, etc.), almost all the difference between liberal and conservative grades disappears. A tiny residual effect remains for some kinds of social conservatives, whose grades tend to fall to a slightly greater extent than liberals’ during the transition to college. However, the difference is extremely small. On a 7-point scale, the gap between the GPA of the most liberal student and the most conservative one is just 0.16. And even this may be explained by some other, unobserved variable.

Lastly, conservative and liberal students both report high levels of satisfaction with their time in college. According to a 2017 survey .. https://d28htnjz2elwuj.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/27154057/fs-survey-01-tabs.pdf .. from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 91.7 percent of very liberal students say that are satisfied with their college experience. Among very conservative students, that number drops to… 90.7 percent. And while sociological research shows that many conservative students believe they face unique challenges on campus, they also insist that these are far from insurmountable.

The Value of Viewpoint Diversity

The evidence is clear: Liberal indoctrination does not happen, or happens so weakly and sporadically that it makes little difference.

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