The Associated Press: Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 Oct 08
  

  cshirky

  Right-leaning students tend to concentrate at a smaller number of colleges. So at most colleges, there are more left-leaning peer groups, and students on balance move leftward.
  
  
  
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• 18 Oct 08
  

  Kevin Bondelli
• 14 Oct 08
  

  Nathan Rein

  A study finds that, while college faculty tend to be more liberal than the general population, college students' political beliefs are more strongly influenced by their peers than by their teachers. Intuitively this makes a lot of sense to me given my sense of a culture gap between faculty and students at many institutions.

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