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Research on Understanding Faculty Attitudes:
First Wave (late 50s):
Second Wave (1990s-):
- Jewish Institute: Volume II: Religious Beliefs & Behaviors of College Faculty
- How Many Ward Churchills?
- The “Faculty Bias” Studies: Science or Propaganda?
- Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony?
- The Ideological Profile of Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reply to Zipp and Fenwick
- What’s in a Grade? Academic Success and Political Orientation
- Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty
Third Wave (2006-):
- The Social and Political Views of American Professors. Google Document
- How Religious are American’s College and University Professors?
- The Religiosity of American College and University Professors
- Faculty Bias Studies (American Federation of Teachers)
See also:
- Academic Bias (Wikipedia)
- Faculty Partisan Affiliations in All Disciplines: A Voter-Registration Study (Cardiff & Klein)
- Why are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservative Care? (Book, Neil Gross)
- Bias Against Women in Academia History—A Propaganda Analysis (JSTOR)
- Positivity Bias In Higher Education Research
- Is There a Liberal Bias Among American Professors?
- The Value of Ideological Diversity Among University Professors (Whittington)
- The Politics of American Sociologists
- Current Theoretical and Political Perspectives of Western Sociological Theorists (Semantic Scholar)
- Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty (National Association of Scholars)
- The Vanishing West 1964-2010: The Disappearance of Western Civilization from the American Undergraduate Curriculum (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Why Are Liberals So Condescending? (Washington Post)
- The Wedge Driving Academe’s Two Families Apart? (Chronicle of Higher Education)
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Point of View or Op Ed Articles & Books
- How the Left Became so Intolerant (Heritage Foundation)
- Why Can’t the Sciences & the Humanities Get Along: The Wedge Driving Academe's Two Families Apart by D. Hollinger
Individuals in Academe (whose work is worth noting)
- Researcher on Beliefs Among Academic Scientists
- Researcher on Religious Activists in State Level Politics
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Evangelism in Academe
Academic Ambiance
- Vanishing Act (Western Civilization Courses)
- When God Comes To the Office
Science and Christianity
On Naturalism
- What is Naturalism? by Timothy Williamson
- Why I am a Naturalist by Alex Rosenberg
- On Ducking Challenges to Naturalism by Tim Williamson
- What is Naturalism That We Should Be Mindful of It? by William Alston
- What is Naturalism That We Should Be Mindful of It? (Lecture Notes) by William Alston
- Introduction to Faith and Scholarship on our ACI site by Jim Cook
Heretic Naturalist Tom Nagel & Responders:
- Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False (Tom Nagle)
- An Author Attracts Unlikely Allies (NY Times Review)
- Ferguson, Andrew. “Heretic” in The Weekly Standard.
- Where Thomas Nagel Went Wrong (Chronicle of Higher Education Review)
- Science Dismisses Nagel Book with Faint Praise
- Philosopher Thomas Nagel Goes the Way of Alvin Plantinga, Disses Evolution
- What’s Gotten Into Thomas Nagel? (National Post Review)
- Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel (The Nation)
- Awaiting a New Darwin (New York Review of Books)
- The Core of ‘Mind and Cosmos’ (The Opinionator Pages - NYT)
- Thomas Nagel: Thoughts Are Real (The NewYorker)
- No One Reads the Bible Literally by John Wilson (Calvin College)