History News Network Features ICAR Professor Solon Simmons

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Solon Simmons
History News Network Features ICAR Professor Solon Simmons
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Author: Jonathan Zimmerman.
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Published Date: October 15, 2008
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Welcome to another day of campaign 2008 on campus. Out there in the real world, I'm told, the election is hotly contested. But here at the university, it's all Barack, all the time. And that's a recipe for boredom. Part of the problem stems from professors' own political biases, of course. Don't get me wrong: We're not the crazy-eyed Marxists whom you've read about in the papers. As a recent study by sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons has confirmed, American university professors are mostly moderate-to-liberal rather than radical.

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