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UC’s Leftist Echo Chamber Drowns Out Diverse Voices – Debra J. Saunders

Political activism has drawn the University of California into an academic death spiral. So argues a new report, “A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California,” from the conservative California Association of Scholars.The report cites a number of studies that document academia’s political imbalance. While the ratio was 4-to-1 in the professional schools, in more political disciplines, the ratio rose to 17-to-1 in the humanities and 21-to-1 in social sciences.Over the past few decades, the imbalance has grown.

UC’s Leftist Echo Chamber Drowns Out Diverse Voices – Debra J. Saunders – Townhall Conservative Columnists – Page 1.

Romer to resign as head of Council of Economic Advisers

Are the rats deserting the ship?

Christina Romer, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, is resigning to return to her teaching post at the University of California at Berkeley, the White House press office announced Thursday night. She will leave Washington at the end of the month.

Romer to resign as head of Council of Economic Advisers.

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