Political bias rare at Pa.'s public colleges, panel says(reaction to Horowitz)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06318/738275-100.stm

A statewide policy governing college students' academic freedom is unnecessary because political bias is rare at Pennsylvania's public colleges and universities, a bipartisan legislative panel has found.

Instead, the panel is recommending that schools review their academic-freedom policies, ensure students are aware of policies and grievance procedures, and provide an alternative for students who are reluctant to complain directly to a professor, according to a final report discussed today.

The House Select Committee on Academic Freedom in Higher Education made the recommendations after gathering testimony at four public hearings across the state between September 2005 and June. The committee did not immediately adopt the report at a meeting today because it lacked a quorum but planned to meet later in the day to vote on it.

The inquiry is part of a national debate fueled by allegations that liberal professors are infringing on conservative students' right to free speech at taxpayer-funded schools. Conservatives including writer-activist David Horowitz have demanded an "academic bill of rights."

The report notes that the statewide hearings appeared to be the first of their kind in the nation, although the House created a committee to study academic freedom at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1930s.

[ck4829]

1. Horowitz received a smackdown

Go House Select Committee on Academic Freedom in Higher Education!

:patriot::woohoo::applause::yourock:

[Supersedeas]

2. sound and fury signifying Horowitz

[struggle4progress]

3. Penn State tends to be rather conservative, if anything