The Choice Channel

“The three-year-old Academic Bill of Rights (ABR) is an innocuous-looking document setting a basic definition of academic freedom–a mechanism for protecting university students and faculty from ‘the imposition of any orthodoxy of a political, religious, or ideological nature.’ It emphasizes students’ and faculty members’ free-speech rights and the value of intellectual diversity on college campuses. But it is sparking debate about whether political bias is rife in university classrooms and, if so, who should respond to eliminate it. Malcolm Kline, executive director of Accuracy in Academia, a nonprofit research group that tracks and publicizes political bias in education, said ‘liberal groupthink’ prevails in the academy, undermining the intellectual rigor that should pervade college campuses.” (10/06)