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kat321 -> RE: Independance Day Is For Conservatives (7/1/2011 4:00:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Rather than delve into your silly false dichotomies, a better plan would be to examine public funding options and on the personal level consider sending our young adults to get an education at more balanced institutions vs. the very expensive ideological indoctrination / brain washing they would receive at certain other institutions
This is the misinformation I figured someone would bring into the mix. Your assertion that colleges indoctrinate students into a particular political ideology, as much as is repeated by certain pundits, has been debunked by multiple studies- most funded by either conservative or bipartisan organizations. Brief summaries of two of these studies with bibliographic information is given below.
"Mariani and Hewitt (2008) utilized Higher Education Research Institute data to perform a longitudinal study exploring changes in students’ political ideology during their college years. An analysis of survey responses from 6,807 students at 38 colleges at the start of their freshman year in 1999 and then again at the end of their senior year in 2003 suggested participants tended to become more liberal during their college years, but at rates similar to the U.S. population of the same age range not attending college. Additionally, there was no evidence indicating that institutions with more liberal faculty fostered any additionally liberalism in their students. Furthermore, Kemmelmeier, Danielson and Basten (2005) explored student success as a function of ideology. Two significant and related findings emerged from analysis of their data collected from a cohort of 5,534 students over four years at a major public university. First, in disciplines that tend to attract liberal students (e.g. sociology, American studies, and cultural anthropology) there was no relationship between students’ political views and the grades they received. Second, in disciplines that attract conservative students (e.g. economics and business), conservative students actually made higher grades than their more liberal peers, by a factor of 0.25 on a four-point grading scale. Such findings suggest that conservative students are not having their grades regularly penalized due to their beliefs." (bold added) Summary taken from http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/trends-in-higher-education/political-bias-in-the-classroom-perception-and-reality/
Kemmelmeier, M., Danielson, C., & Basten, J. (2005). What’s in a grade? Academic success and political orientation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 31, 1386-1399.
Mariani, M. D. & Hewitt, G. J. (2008). Indoctrination U.? Faculty ideology and changes in student political orientation. PS: Political Science and Politics, 41(4).
No one doubts that there are more left that right leaning faculty in university classrooms; however, the indoctrination which conservatives believe goes on in those classrooms does not exist.
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