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A new study sponsored by the National Association of Scholars found that professors in the University of California system are often more focused on indoctrinating students than it is instructing them. Columnist Jennifer Kabbany cites the study as evidence that so-called social justice and Marxist agendas have replaced genuine academic debate.

Anecdotal evidence in the report includes a UC Davis professor who cancelled an anthropology final exam and instead wrote anti-war and anti-American websites on the board and held a discussion on the war in Iraq; a computer science professor at Berkeley who frequently used his lectures to call former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a Nazi and stated nothing Saddam Hussein has done could be any worse than what George Bush has done; and a sociology professor at UCSD who questioned whether the 9/11 attacks were terrorism or legitimate warfare, and stated Americans have no moral ground to condemn the attacks.

Bias also could be found in course descriptions, required readings and class mandates. An American history course is not required for history majors at the UC Davis, Santa Cruz, Irvine and San Diego campuses; and at several campuses, students can graduate with a major in English literature without having read a word of Shakespeare, Chaucer or Milton, the report states.

What’s more, results of national faculty surveys found that for every eight professors who identified themselves as either left-leaning, Democrat or socialist, one professor identified themselves as conservative or Republican. In many cases, however, studies found the ratios at UC campuses and elsewhere are often more close to 15-to-1.

Another survey found professors would be more inclined to hire a communist than a Republican.

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