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CRITICAL THINKING: ‘Look for outcomes’

| January 26, 2024 1:00 AM

Critical thinking is: “The ability to interpret, evaluate, and analyze facts and information that are available, to form a judgment or decide if something is right or wrong.”

A HERI study asked how faculty members self-identify across the political spectrum. In 1989-90, when HERI first fielded this survey. 42% of the faculty were on the left. 40% were moderate and 18% were on the right. Almost 3 decades later in 2016-17, HERI found that 60% of the faculty identified as either far left or liberal compared to just 12% being conservative, or far right.

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