Video: The Politically Correct University

Andy Nash

From Inside Academia TV

Key Take-Aways

  • 0:40  Ideological imbalance – a lack of voice right of center. (1 min, 20 sec)
  • 2:00  Empirical, not just anecdotal evidence – Liberals to Conservatives: 40 to 1. (2 min)
  • 4:30  Discrimination in faculty hiring?  Bias in scholarship in social sciences. (4 min, 10 sec)
  • 8:45  Mere bias of ideas or outright social activism? (2 min, 45 sec)
  • 11:30  Agreement on the problem, disagreement on origins and solutions. (2 min)
  • 13:35  What does the book offer to affect change? (2 min, 20 sec)
  • 16:00  Is the Imbalance worse?  Are there reforms in place? (1 min)
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