Posted on 06/08/2010 7:48:22 AM PDT by bs9021
The Summer Reeducation Program
Spencer Irvine, June 8, 2010
A study conducted by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) analyzed the college reading lists assigned to incoming freshmen, and found some interesting results. The study covered 180 books and 290 college summer reading programs.
The study shows that the overwhelming number of books chosen “reflect themes congenial [or favorable towards] the academic left.”
“Of the 180 books, 126 (70 percent) either explicitly promote a liberal political agenda or advance a liberal interpretation of events.” On the other side, the study found “only three books (less than 2 percent) promote a conservative sensibility and none that promote conservative political causes.”
The remaining 51 books, or 28 percent, do not lean to the liberal or the conservative sides. In the report, the NAS recounts the controversy that ensued when the book, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich led to protests with critics claiming that this book assignment was an “intellectually dishonest” attempt to sway student opinion. Protesting students sometimes took out “full-page newspaper ads and stirred up considerable public opposition” to the book assignment. In the final list of major findings, the NAS stated that “our study brings to light a now well-documented instance of systemic liberal bias in American colleges and universities.”
The study concluded that the political leanings of book assignments could illustrate “deeper problems in American higher education” since “the existence of this bias is strongly disputed by some experts on higher education.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
BIG surprise - not
> The study shows that the overwhelming number of books
> chosen “reflect themes congenial [or favorable towards] the
> academic left.”
No way!! /sarc
Where’s Captain Obvious?
Took the words right out of my mouth.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile!
And it will be done using your own money.
“The study shows that the overwhelming number of books chosen ‘reflect themes congenial [or favorable towards] the academic left.’”
Sky is blue, water is wet, blah, blah, blah
“the existence of this bias is strongly disputed by some experts on higher education.”
Said experts all resemble that nervous, sweaty, chain-smoking Nathan Thurm character played by Martin Short.
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