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"An article of faith among conservative critics of American universities has been that liberal professors politically indoctrinate their students." So begins a Nov. 2 New York Times article, "The New Professors' Liberalism Contagious? Maybe Not," highlighting several studies that conclude professors have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students. Included in the article is a study written by Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt with Mack D. Mariani, a professor at Xavier University. 

Quoting from their study, the Times noted, "Student political orientation does not change for a majority of students while in college, and for those that do change there is evidence that other factors have an effect on that change, such as gender and socioeconomic status." Their data included nearly 7,000 students at 38 institutions and was published in the October 2008 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics, the journal of the American Political Science Association.

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