{"id":3261,"date":"2007-11-16T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/11\/the-conservative-pipeline-problem\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T23:55:38","slug":"the-conservative-pipeline-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/11\/the-conservative-pipeline-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Pipeline Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/11\/16\/conservative\">The Conservative Pipeline Problem<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nColleges have been increasingly competing to offer \u201cfamily friendly\u201d policies \u2014 in the hopes of attracting the best academic talent from a pool of Ph.D.\u2019s that includes both more women than ever before as well as many men who take parenting responsibilities seriously. A new study suggests that such policies may be important for another group that believes its needs aren\u2019t fully addressed in academe: conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The study \u2014 \u201cLeft Pipeline: Why Conservatives Don\u2019t Get Doctorates\u201d \u2014 argues that the much debated minority status for conservatives in higher education may be the result of differing priorities of graduating college seniors of different political persuasions. The study presents evidence that conservatives are significantly more likely than liberals \u2014 at the point when college students decide whether to apply to graduate school \u2014 to value raising a family and having money. In contrast, liberals at that point in their lives are significantly more likely to value writing original works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: The Conservative Pipeline Problem Colleges have been increasingly competing to offer \u201cfamily friendly\u201d policies \u2014 in the hopes of attracting the best academic talent from a pool of Ph.D.\u2019s that includes both more women than ever before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/11\/the-conservative-pipeline-problem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}