The Politically Correct University: Problems, Scope, and Reform

Political correctness if one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is not simply another rant; there are good data here, along with well-crafted, hard-to-ignore logical interpretations and arguments. It is the sort of work that those who adhere to idea-limiting notions of the university will try to trivialize. That alone should make it important reading. —Michael Schwartz, president emeritus, Kent State University and Cleveland State University

Political correctness if one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is not simply another rant; there are good data here, along with well-crafted, hard-to-ignore logical interpretations and arguments. It is the sort of work that those who adhere to idea-limiting notions of the university will try to trivialize. That alone should make it important reading. —Michael Schwartz, president emeritus, Kent State University and Cleveland State University

Frederick M. Hess is resident scholar and director of education policy studies at AEI. Robert Maranto is the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the department of education reform at the University of Arkansas. Richard E. Redding is an associate dean and professor of law at Chapman University School of Law.