Five Myths about Liberal Academia (Washington Post, February 2011
By Matthew Woessner, April Kelly-Woessner and Stanley Rothman Friday, February 25, 2011; 12:00 PM Do red-blooded, hard-working Americans pay thousands of dollars each year to send their children to college, only to have those kids turned into pot-smoking Obamacare-lovers by a pack of communist hippies? This stereotype -- professors as brainwashing left-wing ideologues -- has dogged academia at least since the Vietnam War era. But our nation's vilified professoriate isn't composed of just Marxists and Whole Foods shoppers. Let's upend five popular misconceptions about the people educating the next generation. [the rest of the article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022503169.html?hpid=opinionsbox1