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Faculty political bias is even more widespread than we thought

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The Trump administration‘s efforts to reform higher education have been hampered by a lack of accurate data. As a recent Heterodox Academy report noted, current studies of faculty political diversity have serious weaknesses.

This leaves voters, policymakers, and even schools with a limited look at the problems they face. But there is a better way to measure faculty political skew that provides a clear look at the extent of the problem and how to address it: professors’ research interests.

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