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In 1951, members of the American Legion began accusing various university faculty of being communists. [8] University administrations responded by banning left-wing student groups and communist speakers. [4] Joseph McCarthy's Senate committee investigated 18 faculty members at Sarah Lawrence College, some of whom were pressured to resign. [8]
A 2019 study of European universities argued that while university professors were more left-wing and liberal than other professions, professors did not display a higher level of homogeneity in political views (aside from views on immigration) than other professions such as CEOs did, suggesting European universities are not exclusionary ...
The history of left-wing politics in the United States consists of a broad range of individuals and groups that have sought fundamental egalitarian changes. [1] Left-wing activists in the United States have been credited with advancing social change on issues such as labor and civil rights as well as providing critiques of capitalism.
Allowing these protests at college campuses is not about free speech—and there should be no question as to whether to put a stop to them. There is right and wrong, and the distinction here is ...
Personal Politics: The Roots of the Women's Liberation Movement in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. Alfred Knopf, 1979. ISBN 978-0394419114. Frost, Heather. An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s. New York: New York University press, 2001. ISBN 0-8147-2697-6.
For at least a decade, the University of Georgia has failed to enroll Black students at a rate proportionate to the state's Black high school students.
The review in the industry news digest Publishers Weekly stated that Horowitz's "intention to expose the majority of these professors as 'dangerous' and undeserving of their coveted positions seems petty in some cases, as when he smugly mocks the proliferation of departments dedicated to peace studies or considers 'anti-war activist' as a character flaw... the most egregious crimes perpetrated ...
Here's a higher education shocker: Thanks to tuition hikes at California's state universities on the one hand, and the generous financial aid policies of Harvard on the other, attending the Ivy ...