Pennsylvania: Using New Policy, Students Complain About Classroom Bias on 2 Pa. Campuses

by E Wayne Ross on July 23, 2008

The Chronicle: Using New Policy, Students Complain About Classroom Bias on 2 Pa. Campuses

Two undergraduates on Pennsylvania State University’s main campus have filed four complaints against instructors under new procedures designed to help students who believe that their professors have presented biased lessons in the classroom. Two more complaints have been filed at Temple University.

Penn State and Temple put their student-complaint procedures in place in 2006, after Pennsylvania’s legislature held much-publicized hearings to investigate allegations that professors had indoctrinated students in left-wing ideology and discriminated against conservatives.