{"id":5644,"date":"2009-03-20T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2009-03-20T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T20:18:16","slug":"%e2%80%98the-knowledge-politics-problem%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/%e2%80%98the-knowledge-politics-problem%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Knowledge-Politics Problem\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/03\/20\/politics\"> \u2018The Knowledge-Politics Problem\u2019<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nIn the ongoing debates over professors\u2019 politics, right-wing critics make much of the fact that many surveys have found professors &#8212; especially in the humanities &#8212; to be well to the left of the American public. This political incongruence is frequently used as a jumping off point to suggest that professors are indoctrinating students with leftist ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Gross, a sociologist at the University of British Columbia, is one of the leading researchers on faculty politics, and he recently finished a new analysis of these issues (to appear in a forthcoming collection of essays by different scholars) finding that the conservative critics are correct about humanities\u2019 professors leanings, but incorrect about their views of what classroom responsibility entails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: \u2018The Knowledge-Politics Problem\u2019 In the ongoing debates over professors\u2019 politics, right-wing critics make much of the fact that many surveys have found professors &#8212; especially in the humanities &#8212; to be well to the left of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/%e2%80%98the-knowledge-politics-problem%e2%80%99\/\">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":[642],"tags":[3045,1288922,2367],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-classroom-politics","tag-faculty","tag-ideology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5645,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/5645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}