On October 16, 2018, the New York Times published an op-ed by Professor Samuel J. Abrams of Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), in which Abrams criticized the college’s Office of Student Affairs’ proposal for a conference titled “Our Liberation Summit.”1 The conference proposal solicited ideas on “woke” topics such as Black Lives Matter and justice for transgender and queer people. In his op-ed Abrams, a professor of political science, maintained that the college’s Office of Student Affairs was serving to shut down political debate rather than foster it. Abrams discussed a survey he conducted of a representative sample of 900 college administrators, which found that those with leftist political beliefs outnumbered those with rightist beliefs by a ratio of twelve to one. This, according to Abrams, made college administrators the most left-biased stakeholders on American campuses.
The following March a
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