July 25, 2008
The Profs They Are A-Changin'
According to a recent article in The New York Times, the political makeup of academe may be changing. In 2005 more than 54 percent of full-time faculty members in the United States were older than 50, compared with just 22.5 percent in 1969. Patricia Cohen, a reporter for the Times, couples that with another intriguing fact: Recent studies suggest that younger faculty members tend to hold more moderate political views than their liberal elder colleagues. So will the impending retirement of
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