This is not aligned with how most Americans view higher education: - Democrats have a more positive view of how colleges impact the country - Democrats have h

This is not aligned with how most Americans view higher education: - Democrats have a more positive view of how colleges impact the country - Democrats have higher confidence that professors act in the public interest - Republicans are more likely to view higher education as moving in the wrong direction - Democrats are relatively unconcerned about professors bringing political/social views into the classroom, compared to republicans who are very concerned Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/08/19/the-growing-partisan-divide-in-views-of-higher-education-2/ https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/08/19/the-gro... > If "left" and "right" have any meaning at all, "right" describes a worldview under which civilized society depends upon legitimate hierarchy, and a key object of politics is properly defining and protecting that hierarchy. Hierarchy is a natural consequence of variation in skills, experience, and work ethic. Meanwhile, the author's definition provided for "left" is so squiggly as to be nearly meaningless. It almost sounds like the mythical, non-totalitarian brand of communism that just hasn't quite worked yet: > "Left", on the other hand, is animated by antipathy to hierarchy, by an egalitarianism of dignity. While left-wing movements recognize that effective institutions must place people in different roles — sometimes hierarchical, sometimes associated with unequal rewards — these are contingent, often problematic, overlays upon a foundational assertion that every human being has equal dignity and equal claim to the fundamental goods of human life. In other words, "left" has hierarchy, but only begrudgingly, and other than that we're very virtuous. It's truly difficult to get past this opening argument. If you're going to make a shocking claim (higher ed is right wing), you can't start with such a shaky foundation. What would a non-hierarchical University system even look like? Harvard being more prestigious than my local community college does not make higher education right wing.