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A new poll by Zogby Interactive may not cheer professors. A majority of the public believes that political bias by professors is a serious problem and doubts that tenure promotes quality. Skepticism of Faculty and Tenure by Inside Higher Education reports, among other factoids, that more than 58 percent of those polled believe that political bias is a somewhat serious or very serious problem.

Update on July 16, 2007 at 05:49PM by

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Another recent survey shows that religion is alive and well in academia -- except for godless social scientists.

http://www.nysun.com/article/58087?page_no=1

July 12, 2007 at 11:12AM |

Monk

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