Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University by Shields, Jon A.
Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University by Shields, Jon A.

Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University

Few seem to think conservatives should become professors. While the left fears an invasion of their citadel...
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Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University by Shields, Jon A.

Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University

$85.03
Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University by Shields, Jon A.

Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University

$85.03
Author: Jon A. Shields
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Few seem to think conservatives should become professors. While the left fears an invasion of their citadel by conservatives marching to orders from the Koch brothers, the right steers young conservatives away from a professorial vocation by lampooning its leftism. Shields and Dunn quiet these fears by shedding light on the hidden world of conservative professors through 153 interviews. Most conservative professors told them that the university is a far more tolerant place than its right-wing critics imagine. Many, in fact, first turned right in the university itself, while others say they feel more at home in academia than in the Republican Party. Even so, being a conservative in the progressive university can be challenging. Many professors admit to closeting themselves prior to tenure by passing as liberals. Some openly conservative professors even say they were badly mistreated on account of their politics, especially those who ventured into politicized disciplines or
expressed culturally conservative views. Despite real challenges, the many successful professors interviewed by Shields and Dunn show that conservatives can survive and sometimes thrive in one of America's most progressive professions. And this means that liberals and conservatives need to rethink the place of conservatives in academia. Liberals should take the high road by becoming more principled advocates of diversity, especially since conservative professors are rarely close-minded or combatants in a right-wing war against the university. Movement conservatives, meanwhile, should de-escalate its polemical war against the university, especially since it inadvertently helps cement progressives' troubled rule over academia.


Author: Jon A. Shields, Joshua M. Dunn Sr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/31/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780199863051


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/29/2016

About the Author

Jon A. Shields is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College.

Joshua M. Dunn Sr. is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

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