Trump is waging war against higher education. While most Americans don’t support the attack, they share his distrust. This lack of faith in our universities is attributed to campus antisemitism and political lopsidedness among faculty, especially when it comes to teaching contentious issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite these frequent and long-standing allegations of bias, however, remarkably little hard evidence has ever been adduced to prove them. We recently discovered just that evidence when we analyzed a database of 27 million college syllabi. In this short talk, we reviewed our findings and addressed how college administrators might encourage more responsible and broadminded curriculums, build a university culture of robust liberal debate, and begin winning back public trust.
Presented by Professors Yuval Avnur (Scripps College, Claremont) and Stephanie Muravchik (Claremont McKenna College)
