There’s been much airing this past year of the view that professors do not impose their views on students. The latest writer to argue the case is New York Times journalist Patricia Cohen. The NAS has done yeoman’s work in refuting this proposition, as Peter Wood indicates in yet another masterful refutation:

A year ago, two professors at a Harvard symposium presented data they said showed that most professors are actually moderate. (NAS president Steve Balch raised an eyebrow at their methods.) The University System of Georgia released a study in August that purported to show that students see little bias in class. (I found fault with that study.) A new book, Closed Minds? by three George Mason professors argues that campuses are not “saturated by politics” at all; rather professors shy away from political controversy. (NAS’s Glenn Ricketts has doubts.)