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ACTA president Anne D. Neal appears before the Select Committee on Academic Freedom in Higher Education of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, documenting politicization of the classroom.
Forty-nine percent of students at the nation's top universities say their professors subject them to political commentary in class, even when teaching. What's more, 29 percent say they feel pressure to agree with the professor's political views to get a good grade. A new study by the American C...
Most Journal readers over a certain age can remember going all the way through college without politics intruding in the classroom. Until the Vietnam War, for instance, few students knew their professors' views, and even then most politicking took place on parts of the campus where participation ...
Pennsylvania lawmakers continued to hear testimony on Tuesday about whether professors in the state's public colleges inappropriately express liberal political views in the classroom and discriminate against conservative students who disagree with them. Members of the Select Committee of the Pen...
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