{"id":3357,"date":"2007-12-26T21:45:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/12\/the-left-leaning-towers-of-ivory\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T05:45:36","slug":"the-left-leaning-towers-of-ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/12\/the-left-leaning-towers-of-ivory\/","title":{"rendered":"The left-leaning towers of ivory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/editorial\/outlook\/5380567.html\">The left-leaning towers of ivory<\/a><br \/>\nMonocultural colleges need to encourage intellectual diversity<\/p>\n<p>By ROBERT MARANTO<\/p>\n<p>ARE university faculties biased toward the left? And is this diminishing universities&#8217; role in American public life? Conservatives have been saying so since William F. Buckley Jr. wrote God and Man at Yale \u2014 in 1951. But lately criticism is coming from others \u2014 making universities face some hard questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post: The left-leaning towers of ivory Monocultural colleges need to encourage intellectual diversity By ROBERT MARANTO ARE university faculties biased toward the left? And is this diminishing universities&#8217; role in American public life? Conservatives have been saying so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/12\/the-left-leaning-towers-of-ivory\/\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","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=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}