Disagree.
ThePAMan AOTC yet again....
https://www.persuasion.community/p/we-analyzed-university-syllabi-theres?publication_id=61579&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=1nfyj&utm_medium=emailWe Analyzed University Syllabi. There's a Monoculture
Professors need to diversify what they teach.
The right seems to be on a mission to expose universities as centers of leftist indoctrination. Too often we professors waved away the charge. We called these assertions naive at best, Trumpy at worst. Students, we rightly noted, are not putty in our hands, to be molded as we see fit. They have their own minds. Plus, we all too often struggle to even get them to do the readings. How could we possibly be indoctrinating them?
This objection has been made plenty of times. But it’s time we saw it for what it is: A dodge that deflects attention away from what professors are actually doing in their classrooms. The truth is that far too many are teaching in ways that look a lot like they’re trying to indoctrinate students, even if that isn’t always their intention.
We just completed a study that draws on a database of millions of college syllabi to explore how professors teach three of the nation’s most contentious topics—racial bias in the criminal justice system, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the ethics of abortion. Since all these issues sharply divide scholars, we wanted to know whether students were expected to read a wide or narrow range of perspectives on them. We wondered how well professors are introducing students to the moral and political controversies that divide intellectuals and roil our democracy.
Not well, as it turns out. Across each issue we found that the academic norm is to shield students from some of our most important disagreements
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