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Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman cover image

What is Academic Freedom and Tenure, and Why Do They Matter (e.g., for teaching about religion!)?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

CHAPTER

The Pros and Cons of Liberal Professors

Most high level colleges and universities in this country, Ivy League schools, private schools, major research universities, their faculty lean heavily liberal. You just get more PhDs say in the humanities who are teaching who tend to be left leaning because for one reason or another that's the views they've ended up with. Many of us did not start out with left-leaning views. I certainly didn't. And so it isn't just that liberals do this too. It happens on both ways. But getting rid of tenure is not only not going to solve that, oh my God, is it going to make things awful?

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