ABSTRACT
In Chapter 4 we move beyond looking at the political makeup of the faculty to explore whether such faculty members at conservative Protestant campuses have anti-progressive bias. We use data from previous research of one of the authors, a novel data set of textbooks we recently collected, and a listing of campus speaker disinvitations to investigate the openness different types of campuses have to non-conforming political ideas. Just as there is no empirical evidence that political conservatives are dominating the ranks of conservative Protestant campus faculty, there is also no empirical evidence of anti-progressive bias. What we do find is that faculty on conservative Protestant campuses are not as overwhelmingly progressive as other professors, and that difference accounts for a different political atmosphere at these institutions of higher education. The lack of progressive skewness seems to lead to an atmosphere where there is less overall political bias. Nevertheless we do find evidence of a religious bias on conservative Protestant campuses. Ultimately, conservative Protestant faculty have less political bias, but more theological bias than other faculty members.
