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Students are pictured on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Students are pictured on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Some 800 full-time undergraduate students at private and public four-year universities took part in the survey earlier this month that was conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on behalf of Yale University's William F. Buckley, Jr. Program.
More than half of those students (52 percent) said that their professors or course instructors express their own unrelated social or political beliefs "often" in class, according to the poll results that are due to be released next week, but were seen in advance by The Wall Street Journal found.
But unlike their professors, the young people find it more difficult to speak up. The survey found that 53 percent of the students polled often feel "intimidated" in sharing their ideas, opinions, or beliefs if they differ from their professor's. That's an increase of four percentage points from three years ago.
Comment: If you want an indoctrination-free education you might be safer enrolling in YouTube University and getting a library card rather than attending an American college.