The Campus Today

How to Get an “A” at One Elite School
By David Horowitz–FrontPageMag.com–05/11/05

Close your eyes and lie.
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An Ill-Bred Professor, and a Bad Situation
By David Horowitz–FrontPageMag.com–04/25/05

How the chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of Hawaii used the occasion of my visit to insult his students.
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Bowling Green Barbarians
By David Horowitz–Frontpagemag.com–04/04/05

How Communists and college professors tried to stifle my right to free speech.
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It’s Time for Fairness and Inclusion in Our Universities
By David Horowitz–FrontPageMagazine.com–12/13/04

Two studies have appeared that reveal a serious corruption of the academic enterprise in America and a troubling situation on our campuses.
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California’s Betrayal of Academic Freedom
By David Horowitz– FrontPageMagazine.com–09/14/04

How the core principles of academic freedom were scuttled to protect anti-Semitic professors.
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My Visit to Brandeis
By David Horowitz–Frontpagemag.com–04/03/04

Last week I was in the Boston area to speak at three liberal colleges, including Brandeis.
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My Visit to Brown
By David Horowitz–FrontPageMagazine.com, 11/18/03

In the spring of 2001, I placed an ad in the student paper at Brown giving “Ten Reasons Why Reparations For Slavery Is A Bad Idea – And Racist Too.”
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Missing Diversity On America’s Campuses
By David Horowitz–FrontPageMagazine.com–09/03/02

In the Fall of 2001, I spoke at a large public university in the eastern United States, which will remain nameless to protect the innocent.
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Wake Up America: My Visit To Vanderbilt
By David Horowitz–FrontPageMagazine.com–09/04/02

Vanderbilt University is a venerable institution in Nashville and the premier seat of higher learning in the state of Tennessee.
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Visit To A Small College
By David Horowitz–FrontPageMagazine.com–04/26/99

It’s the season when high school graduates, parents in tow, set out on their tours of ivied campuses, in search of the right investment for their education dollar. This spring I made a parallel tour.
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AAUP Statements on Academic Freedom
Excerpted from the Students for Academic Freedom mission and strategy booklet by David Horowitz.
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KU and KSU Academic Freedom Policies Analysis
By Sara Dogan–SAF–03/15/06
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Temple and University of Pittsburgh Academic Freedom Policies Analysis
By Sara Dogan–SAF–10/15/05
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Ohio Summary of Current Academic Freedom Policies at Eleven State Universities
By Sara Dogan – SAF – 04/27/05

Nearly all of Ohio’s public universities have policies which restrict professors from persistently introducing irrelevant controversial material in the classroom. It’s a shame that they aren’t publicized to students or enforced.
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Florida Academic Freedom Policies Evaluation
By Sara Dogan–04/04/05
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Commentary on the Academic Freedom Regulations at OSU and Senate Bill 24
By Sara Dogan, National Campus Director, Students for Academic Freedom, 03/07/05

Ohio State’s Academic Freedom Regulations provide many of the same protections as Senate Bill 24, but students are unlikely to ever find out.
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University of Cincinnati: Evaluation of Academic Freedom Policies
By Sara Dogan–03/10/05

The University of Cincinnati has extensive academic freedom policies–but students are unlikely to know about them.
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The American Historical Association Endorses the ABOR–in Theory
By Sara Dogan–FrontPageMagazine.com–03/28/05

A review of the AHA’s Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct.
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Penn State Academic Freedom Regulations Analysis

The Academic Freedom policies of Penn State University explicitly prohibit faculty members from discussing controversial topics in class that do not relate to the subject matter of their courses.
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Bowling Green State University (OH) Academic Freedom Policies

Resolution on Academic Freedom from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Faculty Senate

This resolution from the Faculty Senate at U. Hawaii-Manoa illustrates that asking faculty members to refrain from “introducing controversial matters into their teaching that have no relevance to the subject” is part of the commonly-held philosophy of academic freedom.
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2003 – 2009 Agreement between the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly and the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii
The faculty contract lays out the responsible behavior of professors in the classroom which accords with the Academic Bill of Rights.
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Report on Florida Academic Freedom Policies Obscures a Serious Problem
By Sara Dogan–SAF–07/28/06

Students for Academic Freedom exposes an academic freedom report to the Florida Legislature as a smokescreen.
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Read SAF’s press release here

THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VIEWS OF AMERICAN PROFESSORS      
By Neil Gross  Harvard University [email protected]
Solon Simmons George Mason University [email protected]

A Profile of American College Faculty
Volume One: Political Beliefs and Behavior
By Gary A. Tobin and Aryeh K.Weinberg–JewishResearch.org–2006

Categorized according to both self-identification and voting patterns, faculty are heavily weighted towards the Left.

Faculty Partisan Affiliations in All Disciplines: A Voter-Registration Study
By Christopher F. Cardiff and Daniel B. Klein–Critical Review–July 2006

The party registration of tenure-track faculty at 11 California universities, ranging from small, private, religiously affiliated institutions to large, public, elite schools, shows that the “one-party campus” conjecture does not extend to all institutions or all departments.

ABSTRACT: The party registration of tenure-track faculty at 11 California universities, ranging from small, private, religiously affiliated institutions to large, public, elite schools, shows that the “one-party campus” conjecture does not extend to all institutions or all departments. At one end of the scale, U.C. Berkeley has an adjusted Democrat:Republican ratio of almost 9:1, while Pepperdine University has a ratio of nearly 1:1. Academic field also makes a tremendous difference, with the humanities averaging a 10:1 D:R ratio and business schools averaging 1.3:1, and with departments ranging from sociology (44:1) to management (1.5:1). Across all departments and institutions, the D:R ratio is 5:1, while in the “soft” liberal-arts fields, the ratio is higher than 8:1. These findings are generally in line with comparable previous studies.

Professors and their Politics: The Policy Views of Social Scientists
By Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern–Critical Review–July 2006

Academic social scientists overwhelmingly vote Democratic, and the Democratic hegemony has increased significantly since 1970.
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Sociology and Classical Liberalism
By Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern–06/29/06

The social science where politics has replaced discipline and Democrats outnumber Republicans 15-to-1.

New Study of 18 Elite Law and Journalism Faculties Shows that Democrats Outnumber Republicans by 7-1
10/11/05

A study of 18 elite Law and Journalism faculties by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, shows that faculty Democrats outnumber Republicans by a factor of 7-1.
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Read the full report here

Narrow-Tent Democrats and Fringe Others: The Policy Views of Social Science Professors
Working Paper Series, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
By Daniel B. Klein ([email protected]) and Charlotta Stern([email protected])–08/2005

Abstract: This paper provides copious results from a 2003 survey of academics. We analyze the responses of 1208 academics from six scholarly associations (in anthropology, economics, history, legal and political philosophy, political science, and sociology) with regard to their views on 18 policy issues. The issues include economic regulations, personal-choice restrictions, and military action abroad. We find that the academics overwhelmingly vote Democratic and that the Democratic dominance has increased significantly since 1970.
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Sociology and Classical Liberalism
Ratio Working Papers No 81
By Daniel Klein ([email protected]) and Charlotta Stern ([email protected])

Abstract: We advocate the development of a classical-liberal character within professional sociology. The American Sociological Association (ASA) is taken as representative of professional sociology in the United States.
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If the Law Is an Ass, the Law Professor Is a Donkey
By Adam Liptak–New York Times–08/28/05

Professors at the best law schools are generally assumed to be overwhelmingly liberal, and now a new study lends proof.
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Rothman, Lichter, and Nevitte Survey on Faculty Political Views

Klein Surveys on Political Diversity in American Higher Education
ACTA Survey on Political Pressures in the Classroom

Report on Campus Commencement Speakers

Report on Lack of Political Diversity on Campus

Ivy League Survey

Conservatives Need Not Apply
By John O. McGinnis and Matthew Schwartz–Wall Street Journal–04/01/03

From the claims of supporters of diversity one might think that law schools are sparing no effort to make sure that campuses ring with contentious voices.
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