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Café Cook
A place to grab a cup of coffee and among other things, browse articles and videos of possible interest to Christians whose calling is be a part of the academic world.
It is also a place (much further below on this page), to archive the contents of Connections Review's Café Cook beginning with Issue #8ff, when we first started including it.
Our Current Café Cook Offerings:
Research on Understanding Faculty and Academic Attitudes:
First Wave (starting late 50s):
• The Academic Mind (Lazarfeld & Thielens, 1958, 1977)
• How Religious are American’s College and University Professors? (Gross & Simmons, 1969)
• The Politics of American Sociologists (Lipset & Ladd, 1972)
• Bias Against Women in Academia History—A Propaganda Analysis (JSTOR, 1977)
Second Wave (1990s-2005):
• Theoretical and Political Perspectives of American Sociologists in the 1990s (Sanderson & Ellis, 1992)
• Current Theoretical and Political Perspectives of Western Sociological Theorists (Lord & Sanderson, 1999)
• How Many Ward Churchills? (American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2005)
• ACTA Report on How Many Ward Churchills? ( Timothy Burke, 2006)
• The “Faculty Bias” Studies: Science or Propaganda? (No longer can be found in Inside Higher Education)
• What’s in a Grade? Academic Success and Political Orientation (Kennelmeier, Danielson & Baystern, 2005)
• Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty (Rothman, Lichter & Nevitte, 2005)
• Hide the Republicans, the Christians & the Women: Response to Politics & Professional Advancement Among College Faculty (Barker, Carmen, et al., 2005)
• Faculty Partisan Affiliations in All Disciplines: A Voter-Registration Study (Cardiff & Klein, 2005)
Third Wave (2006-)
• Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony? (Zipp and Fenwick-2006)
• The Ideological Profile of Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reply to Zipp and Fenwick (Klein & Stern-2006)
• Fear and Loathing in College Classroom: A Survey of Political Science Department Chairs Regarding Political Bias (Losco, DeOllos, 2007)
• Jewish Institute: Volume II: Religious Beliefs & Behaviors of College Faculty (This important study no longer has a paper link in Semantic Scholar, 2007)
• Is Leftist Bias on College Campuses a Myth? (Robinson, 2007)
• The Social and Political Views of American Professors. Google Document (Gross & Simmons, 2007)
• The Religiosity of American College and University Professors (Gross & Simmons-2009)
• The Battle Over Studies of Faculty Bias (Gravois, 2007)
• Recalibrating Academic Bias (Yancey, 2012)
See also:
• Academic Bias (Wikipedia)
• Political Views of American Academics (Wikipedia)
• The Vanishing West 1964-2010: The Disappearance of Western Civilization from the American Undergraduate Curriculum (Ricketts, Thorne, Balch & Wood, 2011)
• Why Are Professors So Liberal? (Theory and Society, 2012)
• Is There a Liberal Bias Among American Professors? (Psychology Today, 2012)
• Why are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservative Care? (Neil Gross, 2013)
• The Wedge Driving Academe’s Two Families Apart? (Hollinger, 2013)
• Both/And Instead of Either/Or (Yancey, 2015)
• Investigating the Perceptions of Intellectual Diversity Among Socially Conservative Christian Seniors at Elite U.S. Colleges (Brow, 2016)
• Revisiting Bias in Qualitative Research (Galdas, 2017)
• Yes Academic Bias is a Problem and We need to Address it: A Response to Larregue (Yancey, 2018)
• Think Professors Are Liberal? Try Administrators (NYT, 2018)
• Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty (Langbert, 2018))
• "...Sociology Seeks to Become Politically-Relevant Discipline..." (Turner, 2019)
• The History of Religion in the United States (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory & Research, 2019)
• The American University, the Politics of Professors & the Narrative of "Liberal Bias" (Tyson & Oreske, 2020)
• The Value of Ideological Diversity Among University Professors (Whittington, 2021)
• More Than 80% of Surveyed Harvard Faculty Identify as Liberal (Harvard Crimson, 2022)
• The Hyperpolitization of Higher Education (Magnus, Waugh, 2022)
• Positivity Bias In Higher Education Research (Tight, 2022)
• Psychology as Science and Propaganda (Jussim & Honeycutt, 2023)
• The Persistence of Bias in Education (Smith, Meyer, & McClure, 2023)
• Rise and Fall of American Evangelicalism (video, Tim Keller)
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Point of View or Op Ed Articles & Books
• How the Left Became so Intolerant (Heritage Foundation)
• Why Can’t the Sciences & the Humanities Get Along: The Wedge Driving Academe's Two Families Apart by D. Hollinger
• Why Are Liberals So Condescending? (Gerard Alexander)
Christians in Academe Who are doing Research on Academe (whose work is worth noting)
• Researcher on beliefs among academic scientists (Eckland)
• Researcher on insitutional racial diversity, racial identity, cultural progressives, etc. (Yancey)
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Evangelism in Academe
• White Paper on Peer to Peer Journey Guidance Among Academics
• Mentoring the Journey: Topo #1
Academic Ambiance
• When God Comes To the Office
Science and Christianity
• What is Naturalism? by Timothy Williamson
• Why I am a Naturalist by Alex Rosenberg
• On Ducking Challenges to Naturalism by Tim Williamson
• What is Naturalism That We Should Be Mindful of It? by William Alston
• What is Naturalism That We Should Be Mindful of It? by William Alston (lecture notes)
• Introduction to Faith and Scholarship (ACI)
• Introduction to Faith and Science (ACI)
• Faith and Reason (ACI)
Heretic Naturalist Tom Nagel & Responders:
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False (Tom Nagle)
• An Author Attracts Unlikely Allies (NY Times Review)
• Ferguson, Andrew. “Heretic” in The Weekly Standard.
• Where Thomas Nagel Went Wrong (Chronicle of Higher Education Review)
• Science Dismisses Nagel Book with Faint Praise
• Philosopher Thomas Nagel Goes the Way of Alvin Plantinga, Disses Evolution
• What’s Gotten Into Thomas Nagel? (National Post Review)
• Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel (The Nation)
• The Book that Deflated Darwin Day (Intercollegiate Review)
• Awaiting a New Darwin (New York Review of Books)
• The Core of ‘Mind and Cosmos’ (The Opinionator Pages - NYT)
• Thomas Nagel: Thoughts Are Real (The NewYorker)
• No One Reads the Bible Literally by John Wilson (Calvin College)
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Café Cook Connections Review's Archive:
Note that Café Cook began with Issue # 8 of Connections Review:
Café Cook #10, Winter/Spring 2015
Café Cook #20, Fall 2017/Winter 2018
Café Cook #21 & 22, Not Included
Café Cook #23 & 24, Fall 2018/Winter 2019
Café Cook #25 & 26, Spring/Summer 2019
Café Cook #27, Summer/Fall 2020
Café Cook #28, Winter Spring 2021
Café Cook #29, Summer link /Fall 2022
Café Cook #30, Summer/Fall 2023
Café Cook #31 Not Included
Café Cook #32 Not Included