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...academics outnumber conservative academics. The recurring question is why this is the case, and whether anyone should care. Some hold that the lack of conservatives risks enfeebling the minds of the nation’s youth and oppresses beleaguered conservative PhDs who are denied jobs out of petty political bias. Neither view likely has much basis in reality...
...rarely will produce comments of real value for such a weighty process as that of tenuring professors, and even the rare student who goes in-depth does not have the time to really flesh out his or her thoughts. On top of that, there are real problems with sampling bias, as you have to attend the last section to fill a survey out, and CUE Guide rating inflation—rarely do students give lower than a three for teaching skills...
...large question marks on how to deal with anonymity—to provide the student with freedom for true expression without letting the system be abused. Plus there would be the matter of how and when the University should collect such letters. Further, there would be a large sampling bias to these letters, since only the students who have extreme opinions—be they positive or negative—about the professor will likely bother to write...
Paloma A. Zepeda ’06, a member of the HRC, is also coordinator of the Harvard chapter of Students for Academic Freedom, a nationwide group that seeks to address issues of classroom bias...
...said that while political bias in class is a big issue, Harvard has less of a problem than many other institutions...