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The Pc Academy Debate: Questions Not Asked, Richard E. Redding, Robert Maranto, Frederick Hess
The Pc Academy Debate: Questions Not Asked, Richard E. Redding, Robert Maranto, Frederick Hess
Richard E. Redding
This is the introductory chapter for the edited book, The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reforms, which explores the culture of political correctness in higher education. We focus on the problem of liberal political orthodoxy in teaching and scholarship and seek to understand how diversity – of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, but not of sociopolitical ideas – has become the dominant ideology in colleges and universities. The chapter provides an overview and commentary on the book’s four sections. The first section, Diagnosing the Problem, begins by providing the most current and comprehensive statistical analysis of the relative …