What Freshmen Will Read - of Book Selections and Bias
The report cites several issues with the selections. “We found the preponderance of reading assignments promotes liberal social causes and liberal sensibilities. Of the 180 books, 126 (70 percent) either explicitly promote a liberal political agenda or advance a liberal interpretation of events. By contrast, the study identifies only three books (less than 2 percent) that promote a conservative sensibility and none that promote conservative political causes.”
Moving beyond ideology, the report says that “the books selected for common reading are generally pitched at an intellectual level well below what should be expected of college freshmen.