Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
College and university professors in the liberal arts (humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences) are almost entirely left-leaning, liberal, or progressive, and this is especially true among faculty in the humanities and social sciences. The trend is even more pronounced in certain selective schools. Students who attend liberal arts colleges or universities often adopt more liberal or progressive points of view as a result of their education. There are many great literary depictions of this transformation and the ensuing alienation that often results when such students return home from college. (My favorite is in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Revelation,” where a young woman in a doctor’s office throws her human development textbook at the unenlightened, uncouth, hometown character Ruby Turpin.) Is this phenomenon accidentally related to the demography of the professoriate or somehow intrinsically related to the craft and content of the liberal arts themselves and the culture and atmosphere of the campus?
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Clair, Joseph, "The Christian Liberal Arts Tradition Can Appeal to Christians and Non-Christians Alike" (2023). Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology. 448.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ccs/448
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Originally published by Christianity Today. November 27, 2023.