April 7, 2006

Pa. Lawmakers Get Mixed Message on Fixing Perceived Liberal Bias in Academe

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

Students and professors on both the left and right of the ideological spectrum last month urged Pennsylvania lawmakers not to use legislation to remedy perceived liberal bias on college campuses.

But others testifying before a bipartisan legislative committee here, at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, argued that some professors appeared incapable of divorcing their politics from their instruction. And two academics who have studied the issue told the lawmakers that students'

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