Description: The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." - Michael Barone, resident f...
Brief description: Robert Maranto teaches political science and public administration at Villanova University, and he previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, James Madison University, and Southern Mississippi University. Mr. Maranto has done extensive research on political appointees in government, civil service reform, and school reform, producing more than forty scholarly publications. His op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, and Hartford Courant. Mr. Maranto and his wife, April Gresham Maranto, coedited School Choice in the Real World: Lessons from Arizona Charter Schools. He also wrote Beyond a Government of Strangers and coedited two forthcoming books, Charter Schools and Educational Reform and The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils.
Review Quotes: Political correctness is one of the primary enemies of freedom of thought in higher education today, undermining our ability to acquire, transmit, and process knowledge. Political correctness limits the variation of ideas by an ideologically driven concern for hue rather than view. This volume is not simply another rant; there are good data here, along with well-crafted, hard-to-ignore logical interpretations and arguments. It is the sort of work that those who adhere to idea-limiting notions of the university will try to trivialize. That alone should make it important reading.--Michael Schwartz