{"id":1044,"date":"2007-08-14T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T20:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2007-08-14T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T20:32:20","slug":"actan-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"ACTA&#8217;n up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took four days for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goactablog.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/#000417\">ACTA&#8217;s blog<\/a>&nbsp;to respond to the Center for Responsive Politics&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitaleye.org\/inside.asp?ID=298\">report on political giving within higher education<\/a>. And, true to form, the entry attempted to link contributions to classrooms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Intellectual diversity is not, of course, reducible to party affiliation, and the professoriate&#8217;s campaign contributions do not themselves tell us what happens inside college classrooms. Still, the numbers are suggestive, and they do indicate cause for concern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad there was at least some caveat about the implications, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000994.html\">my prediction that someone would overgeneralize<\/a> came true: there was no acknowledgment that the data is unrepresentative of faculty as a whole. When you do that, it&#8217;s simply cherry-picking data to suit your preconceptions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took four days for ACTA&#8217;s blog&nbsp;to respond to the Center for Responsive Politics&#8217; report on political giving within higher education. And, true to form, the entry attempted to link contributions to classrooms: Intellectual diversity is not, of course, reducible to party affiliation, and the professoriate&#8217;s campaign contributions do not themselves tell us what happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-gQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}