Between impartiality and bias: on the importance of judgment.(academic judgment)

From: Change | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

THE SITUATION

A national movement that claims its purpose is to protect academic freedom and intellectual diversity begins to take root in several states. A state legislative panel begins "investigating whether Pennsylvania's public colleges and universities are indoctrinating students in left-wing ideology (see http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/01/2006011001n.htm)." Student monitors on a campus in Colorado tell professors that they will be reported if they are, in the judgment of the monitors, inappropriately political.

A campus group invites a professor who has appeared ...

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