The Chronicle: Pennsylvania inquiry into bias in academe
A state legislative committee gathered here on Monday for its third round of hearings to investigate whether the state’s public colleges indoctrinate students in left-wing ideology and discriminate against those with conservative points of view.
Temple University’s president, David Adamany, appeared before a committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on the first day of a two-day hearing that was held in the student center at Temple, a state-related institution. The committee, established in July, will hold at least two more hearings in other parts of the state to investigate allegations of political bias in the state’s public colleges. It then has until November to report its findings to the House (The Chronicle, July 7).
Mr. Adamany testified that while Temple’s professors are entitled to freedom in the classroom, they cannot introduce controversial matter that has no relation to the subject. “Classrooms cannot be viewed as pulpits,” he said.
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