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I have not idea what this bullshit was supposed to prove either. (Left-Wing Wacko and Michael Perelman beat me to it. I was doing other things today. Oh, well here it is anyway.)
First track down the think tank and authors. What is the intercollegiate studies institute, Wilmington, DE. Here is the wiki:
``The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., or (ISI), is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1953 as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists. Its members, over 50,000 college students and faculty across the United States, take advantage of programs designed to supplement a collegiate education and to provide access to resources that will help one achieve an education based primarily on the works of influential men and women in the European and Christian traditions. The group is known for having distinctly American Conservative views.[1]
Core values
Although ISI does not have any official partisan or religious affiliation, the Institute tends towards paleoconservative and traditionalist conservative positions. The influence of several important twentieth-century Roman Catholic thinkers is also apparent at ISI. In fact, the very reason given for the existence of ISI is that education in the modern university is insufficiently liberal (in the traditional sense) to meet the needs of a classical education. Further, the organization fights what it perceives as political correctness and liberal (in the modern sense) bias among campus professors.''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute
Then read on, History:
`` 1953, Frank Chodorov founded ISI as the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, with a young Yale University graduate William F. Buckley, Jr. as president. E. Victor Milione...''
Bingo.
So the real question is how did these ISI jerks get published in the Chronicle of Higher Education? Maybe a letter to the editor is in order about the scholarship of Jill Laster the article's author.
Get down to the comment 25, Doug1943: ``The people who sponsored this research, the ISI, are indeed a conservative organization, and this should have been mentioned.'' Damned right it should have been.
Doug1943, probably his birth date, notes the fuddy-duddy type conservativism. Yes, this all sounds so Buckley 50s. Gee, students think queers are okay and don't think business and church do much for `civic' life. What an outrage.
CG