Author: Robert Maranto and Matthew Woessner

Robert Maranto, the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, has written widely on these issues and co-edited The Politically Correct University. Matthew Woessner is an associate professor of political science at Penn State-Harrisburg and co-author of The Still Divided Academy: How competing visions of power, policy, and diversity complicate the mission of higher education.

Are Conservative Fears of Campus Indoctrination Overblown?

Maranto and Woessner reply to Peter Wood’s excellent critique: Our recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay makes the case that while conservatives and libertarians are dramatically outnumbered among higher education faculty by those on the left, fears that college students suffer ideological indoctrination are overblown. In his sensible, nuanced reply, our friend Peter Wood suggests […]

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