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Café Cook

     A place to grab a cup of coffee and among other things, browse articles and videos of possible interest to Christians whose calling is be a part of the academic world. It is also a place (much lower on this page), to archive the contents of Connections Review's Café Cook beginning with Issue #8ff, when we first started including it.

Our Current Café Cook Offerings:

Research on Understanding Faculty and Academic Attitudes:

First Wave (starting late 50s):

     •     The Academic Mind  (Lazarfeld & Thielens, 1958, 1977)

     •     How Religious are American’s College and University Professors? (Gross & Simmons, 1969)

     •     The Politics of American Sociologists (Lipset & Ladd, 1972)

     •     Bias Against Women in Academia History—A Propaganda Analysis (JSTOR, 1977)

Second Wave (1990s-2005):

     •     Theoretical and Political Perspectives of American Sociologists in the 1990s (Sanderson & Ellis, 1992)

     •     Current Theoretical and Political Perspectives of Western Sociological Theorists  (Lord & Sanderson, 1999)

     •     How Many Ward Churchills? (American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2005)

     •     ACTA Report on How Many Ward Churchills? ( Timothy Burke, 2006)

     •     The “Faculty Bias” Studies: Science or Propaganda? (No longer can be found in Inside Higher Education)

     •     What’s in a Grade? Academic Success and Political Orientation (Kennelmeier, Danielson & Baystern, 2005)

     •     Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty (Rothman, Lichter & Nevitte, 2005)

     •     Hide the Republicans, the Christians & the Women: Response to Politics & Professional Advancement Among College Faculty (Barker, Carmen, et al., 2005)

     •     Faculty Partisan Affiliations in All Disciplines: A Voter-Registration Study (Cardiff & Klein, 2005)

Third Wave (2006-)

     •     Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony? (Zipp and Fenwick-2006)     

     •     The Ideological Profile of Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reply to Zipp and Fenwick (Klein & Stern-2006)

     •     Fear and Loathing in College Classroom: A Survey of Political Science Department Chairs Regarding Political Bias (Losco, DeOllos, 2007)

     •     Jewish Institute: Volume II: Religious Beliefs & Behaviors of College Faculty (This important study no longer has a paper link in Semantic Scholar, 2007)

     •     Is Leftist Bias on College Campuses a Myth?  (Robinson, 2007)

     •     The Social and Political Views of American Professors. Google Document (Gross & Simmons, 2007)

     •     The Religiosity of American College and University Professors (Gross & Simmons-2009)

     •     The Battle Over Studies of Faculty Bias (Gravois, 2007)

     •     Recalibrating Academic Bias (Yancey, 2012)

See also:

     •     Academic Bias (Wikipedia)

     •     Political Views of American Academics (Wikipedia)

     •     The Vanishing West 1964-2010: The Disappearance of Western Civilization from the American Undergraduate Curriculum (Ricketts, Thorne, Balch & Wood, 2011)

     •     Why Are Professors So Liberal? (Theory and Society, 2012)

     •     Is There a Liberal Bias Among American Professors? (Psychology Today, 2012)

     •     Why are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservative Care? (Neil Gross, 2013)

     •     The Wedge Driving Academe’s Two Families Apart? (Hollinger, 2013)

     •     Both/And Instead of Either/Or (Yancey, 2015)

     •     Investigating the Perceptions of Intellectual Diversity Among Socially Conservative Christian Seniors at Elite U.S. Colleges (Brow, 2016)

     •     Revisiting Bias in Qualitative Research (Galdas, 2017)

     •     Yes Academic Bias is a Problem and We need to Address it: A Response to Larregue (Yancey, 2018)

     •     Think Professors Are Liberal? Try Administrators (NYT, 2018)

     •     Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty (Langbert, 2018))

     •     "...Sociology Seeks to Become Politically-Relevant Discipline..." (Turner, 2019)

     •     The History of Religion in the United States (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory & Research, 2019)

     •     The American University, the Politics of Professors & the Narrative of "Liberal Bias" (Tyson & Oreske, 2020)

     •     The Value of Ideological Diversity Among University Professors (Whittington, 2021)

     •     More Than 80% of Surveyed Harvard Faculty Identify as Liberal (Harvard Crimson, 2022)

     •     The Hyperpolitization of Higher Education (Magnus, Waugh, 2022)

     •     Positivity Bias In Higher Education Research (Tight, 2022)

     •     Psychology as Science and Propaganda (Jussim & Honeycutt, 2023)

     •     The Persistence of Bias in Education (Smith, Meyer, & McClure, 2023)

     •     Rise and Fall of American Evangelicalism (video, Tim Keller)

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Point of View or Op Ed Articles & Books

     •     How the Left Became so Intolerant (Heritage Foundation)

     •     Why Can’t the Sciences & the Humanities Get Along: The Wedge Driving Academe's Two Families Apart by D. Hollinger

     •     Why Are Liberals So Condescending? (Gerard Alexander)

Christians in Academe Who are doing Research on Academe (whose work is worth noting)

     •     Researcher on Beliefs Among Academic Scientists    

     •     Researcher on Religious Activists in State Level Politics

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Evangelism in Academe

     •     White Paper on Peer to Peer Journey Guidance Among Academics

     •     Mentoring the Journey: Topo #1

Academic Ambiance

     •     When God Comes To the Office

Science and Christianity

     •     On Naturalism

     •     What is Naturalism?  by Timothy Williamson

     •     Why I am a Naturalist   by Alex Rosenberg     

     •     On Ducking Challenges to Naturalism by Tim Williamson

     •     What is Naturalism That We Should Be Mindful of It? by William Alston

     •     What is Naturalism That We Should Be Mindful of It? (Lecture Notes)  by William Alston

     •     Introduction to Faith and Scholarship (ACI)

     •     Faith and Reason  (ACI)

Heretic Naturalist Tom Nagel & Responders:

Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False (Tom Nagle)

     •     An Author Attracts Unlikely Allies (NY Times Review)

     •     Ferguson, Andrew. “Heretic” in The Weekly Standard.

     •     Where Thomas Nagel Went Wrong (Chronicle of Higher Education Review)

     •     Science Dismisses Nagel Book with Faint Praise  

     •     Philosopher Thomas Nagel Goes the Way of Alvin Plantinga, Disses Evolution  

     •     What’s Gotten Into Thomas Nagel? (National Post Review)

     •     Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel  (The Nation)

     •     The Book that Deflated Darwin Day (Intercollegiate Review)

     •     Awaiting a New Darwin (New York Review of Books)

     •     The Core of ‘Mind and Cosmos’ (The Opinionator Pages - NYT)

     •     Thomas Nagel: Thoughts Are Real (The NewYorker)

     •     No One Reads the Bible Literally by John Wilson (Calvin College)

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