Is there a liberal bias in college classrooms? What is your experience?

I'm growing increasingly frustrated at seeing my grades come out unsatisfactory when I started attending college in Los Angeles, I know the organization of my writing and content is mature and professional, I am positive that is still not good enough because I have to ';agree'; with the consensus of the class and the teacher's ideology. I understand and respect other people's view I just wish they could respect mine, I thought liberals were supposed to be tolerant of others.Is there a liberal bias in college classrooms? What is your experience?
Um, I think that there is a definite possibility that the quality of your work is not as good as you think it is. My experience - and I went to a college that is considered to be quite liberal - is that professors want you to think, and as long as you can back up what you have to say with fact, they will respect you.





Honestly, it's impossible to tell without actually seeing your work. Have you tried talking to your professors to try and figure out what they were looking for?Is there a liberal bias in college classrooms? What is your experience?
Our colleges are very liberal, and few professors are tolerant of conservative views.





Colleges are increasingly about indoctrination rather then education.





I have been out of college for many years, but the graduates I have hired in recent years are very liberal.





In arithmetic, your instructor needs to tell you WHAT to think because 2+2 = 4. But when it comes to algebra, political science and other disciplines, they need to teach you HOW to think because there are so many different questions. I have seen many students educated in liberal educations who come out of school with pockets full of solutions to all kinds of problems. The problem is, many of them don't know how to figure out what the problems are. So they toss out their ';solutions'; the way our government tosses money at problems. They seem to think if you throw enough money, everything will be fine.





It won't be.
Oh my god I am about to choke on laughter. There is no other insular bubble on earth that is more liberally biased than college classrooms. And the teachers are the law. In my into to poly sci class I got all A's except on one assignment where I criticized the ACLU, I got a C on that assignment, though it was just as well put together as anything else I have done. In one of my graduate classes, a teacher's assistant actually said this quote,';I am soooo socialist I am almost communist'; while teaching one day in our professor's absence. LOL, yes yes yes. But if you want good grades, which is very important in university, just do whatever the teacher wants. You are not really selling your soul. you are just beating a biased system. So go on and on about how wonderful liberals are and you will get great grades!





Whatever you do, don't listen to ';Patch';, who seems to have never escaped the bubble I am talking about. lol
I think there is, probably because academic types tend to want more change -- that's why they are in the business they are in.





One person complained here about conservative teachers at Brigham Young, but I'd say that's not the norm.





We all need to be a little more tolerant - liberals, conservatives, etc. So you might want to go talk to the teacher about it.
Yes, there is an extreme liberal bias in academia. It's really bad in sociology classes. Please don't even think about taking Soc courses. They'll yell radical liberalism at you all semester, and praise Karl Marx as being the savior of the world.
Without a doubt, there is a liberal bias and has been for the last 40 years.. I learned during my college years to repeat back to the teacher what had been said in class, whether I agreed or not. I ended up with a B plus average, otherwise I might have flunked.
Hell, yes, there's a liberal bias.





I attended San Francisco State University and earned my BA and MA there. Liberal to the bone.
I didn't notice anything like that but then I was a chemistry major and the majority of my classes were science and mathematics....
Yup. It's a good thing IMO.