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In 2015, when Kamala Harris was California’s Attorney General, she imposed implicit bias training on California law enforcement personnel. In 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law a bill imposing implicit bias training on Minnesota police. In 2016, even Senator J. D. Vance wrote far too credulously of implicit bias theory: “The data consistently […]| Minding The Campus
Student evaluations of teaching are widely believed to contain gender bias. In this study, we conduct a randomized experiment with the student evaluations of teaching in four classes with large enrollments, two taught by male instructors and two taught by female instructors. In each of the courses, students were randomly assigned to either receive the standard evaluation instrument or the same instrument with language intended to reduce gender bias. Students in the anti-bias language conditio...| journals.plos.org
Universities and the Battle for Ideological Supremacy| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on December 13, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A University of Illinois student reported his accounting professor to the school’s bias team after she made a “passive-aggressive” comment concerning student course evaluations. The College […]| Minding The Campus
