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Originally Posted by nostatic

ahh, the "National Association of Scholars"

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Association_of_Scholars

So it is rampant across the disciplines? What are the details of the failure to pass a class in, say, chemistry due to political leanings?

I can give you an example from personal experience. I took a business management class senior year of college. The professor (tenured) threw out department guidelines for the course. On day one he told us that his goal was to get us to switch majors from business to "something more productive". Instead of learning about management decisions, we got 16 weeks of how evil corporations were.

He said: "I encourage open debate in my class", but he shut down any debate that he didn't agree with. He used a variety of tactics (many you see here) from feigning confusion to bulldozing with vague statements like "all the experts agree that...[you're wrong]".

Not surprisingly, I challenged this professors views at every opportunity. I found that his views weren't well-reasoned, and instead were quite dogmatic. Eventually he resorted to saying: "moving on to the next topic" any time I spoke.

We were divided into teams and each member of the team turned in an identical final project. I essentially wrote the project single-handedly. I got a "C", my two team members got "A"s. On identical projects!

I did launch a complaint with his department, but as that was my final semester at school and I didn't get the grade until after I graduated, there wasn't much I could do.